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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If I were to write allegory, then I would use a religion of
equalityequity. Cult behavior, Lyshenkoist persecution of a Kulak analog, eventual famine & plague blamed by the cultists on the inequity of the system. Total well-intentioned death cultists.However, I wouldn't know how to market such a work. I am an author, and I write escapism. I write to free those who are jailed by modern circumstances, not as polemic.
Do you let the prisoner dream of freedom, or 'reimagine' their chains?