When a writer possess guilt that sounds like this: “I was born bad” “My very existence is evil” it’s an existential “demographic guilt” or internalization.
Since the “crime” is their very identity, the solution must be to attack the identity itself. That writer will attempt to reclaim their innocence by demonizing their demographic. “If my demographic is the source of the evil, and I am part of that demographic, then I must prove I am one of the good ones by being its harshest critic.” And if their demographic is the status quo then the popular/dominant narrative must be wrong and if thats wrong then whatever is subversive must be right and every critic must be defenders of status quo.
An expression that ultimately weakens their own guilt, weakens their demographic and halts criticism against it. Their core identity is now built around the act of deconstruction itself.If every positive hero is secretly a villain, every triumph is actually a tragedy and a tool of oppression, then nothing is left to believe in. This creates an ideological vacuum. A worldview defined by what it is against rather than what it is for.