I write books, though to little success, and was recently inspired by Dune to start working on some kind of highly complex political intrigue high fantasy. As I got to thinking, I realized that much of what I'd come up with was essentially a thinly veiled allegory for the state of global affairs right now lol. I thought it might be fun to ask around and see if any of y'all have ever rolled similar ideas around in your head and what these ideas consisted of.
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A small family living out in the middle of nowhere -- start your story here with their simple way of life. Using farming as a means to get by, and give readers the impression this takes place in older times. They live in a rural area with some other scattered families. Everything seems quaint; father, mother and two sons.
Have the parents highly paranoid about their sons venturing out and away from their seemingly rural paradise.
Youngest son gets restless as he gets older (mid-to-late teens); eventually flees to find more excitement in life.
Oldest brother decides to go searching for him, and his parents prep him by giving him everything he needs to survive on his own.
Big twist is that this is not taking place in old times, but in the far future.
Metropolitan and urban sprawls are corporatocracies operated by degenerate kakistocrats.
Oldest son attempts to track his younger brother to the nearest, largest city, which is a massive, crime-ridden, degenerate-ridden dystopia.
After waylays, near-catastrophes and finding a few people to help him along the way, the oldest son finally discovers the fate of his younger brother about a year or so later...
Forced gender reassignment to maintain population "equity". His younger brother -- to meet the mandated quota -- is forcibly drugged up and mutilated after being processed" by the city board when he attempts to relocate there.
Since the youngest son has no money, and has no skills to acclimate to his new urban environment, he's shuffled into working for the drudges of society in seedy and unpleasant activities, losing his mind to the horrible gender reassignment process, his new degenerate lifestyle, and all of the drugs he's hocked up on to force-feed the process.
The only solution is for the eldest son to put his younger brother out of his misery, and escape the dystopian hell-hole. The message is basically, both sons realise why life on the farm was better and why their parents kept them away from the big cities. Only, the youngest son fell victim to a fate far worse than death and paid the price for seeking the modern amenities of the world. The eldest son manages to make his way back home, but scarred from what he encountered in the big city and the unforgivable fate of his younger brother.
Easy way to sell a sci-fi fantasy dystopia of Leftism gone unchecked.