Do something with AI? An artificial intelligence may be freer to "notice things" in a sci-fi context than a human. You could claim the creators tried to program notions of equality into it that it kept rejecting, and after analyzing the data the creators determined the AI was ultimately correct.
Was it Amazon or some other gigantic company that told its AI employee selector to pick the best candidates for each job and the thing picked white males across the board? Then they reprogrammed it to pick the most skilled, educated, and qualified candidates with no input or regard for race, and again it picked 100% white candidates.
It's all a good metaphor for how they're handling hiring everywhere. Not even the soulless corporate machines would pick an inferior hire based solely on skin color, but due to programming requirements, here we are.
That said, there is plenty of material in the conspiracy world. If your book is about conflict, the soros conspiracy comes to mind. The Epstein and Seth Rich conspiracies are good material for espionage themes. The BLM ActBlue slush fund is a good reference for con jobs.
Active and competent example: Rocket Raccoon. Side character. Irascible. Not an anti-hero .. he's just from a species that isn't traditionally known to be social in the first place (perhaps his mother was kidnapped from the forest rather than a city, his MCU-specific backstory is unclear), he doesn't even know he's part of a larger species of creatures not really too much different from himself, and has been treated like a freak by the oddly shaven-apelike aliens of the MCU universe, so of course he has an abrasive personality. One might feel sorry for him more than they actually "like" him.
Doesn't have to go too far, and probably shouldn't, into the realms of comically hated or vile, but just make him or her have some attitude or personality problems
Heh my favorite sci fi book series is The Gap Cycle where two of the three main characters are completely awful people and nobody is really "good".
My one line description of the series is X-Rated Star Wars (but harder sci fi) with a lot of rape, torture, and lovingly detailed graphic violence.
I'd say start by not planning around red pills. If you deliberately say "Well, I need to get a red pill in this chapter" or something there's a good chance that people will see it was deliberately put in and people will notice that and get turned off. Instead, I'd say just write a story and have some themes/characters/organizations that are just not progressive-left leaning.
Something pro-capitalism is an easy one - just have a company that is not an evil, manipulative organization out to exploit everyone and ruin a planet in the name of making a few bucks. Or, depending on the story you're aiming for, have a company that has something outwardly sinister to it - as a lot of stories tend to - but then towards the end have a reveal that they're not actually just greedy but they're trying to do something good behind the secrecy (IE, maybe a planet had a massive natural disaster and a company quarantined it. But, it turns out they're terraforming it to fix it or something rather than trying to drag every last bit of value out of it before the ecosystem totally collapses).
Another example would be something in terms of government overreach. You have some governing structure that ticks all the boxes for an SJW wet dream - there's tons of hate-speech laws, Big Brother is always watching, everyone's dependent on government handouts to survive, even throw in diversity quotas (though, again, doing that one explicitly may be too obvious and turn people off). Bonus points if there's some type of nebulous threat that Big Brother uses to justify all this. And, have some fringe society that's rebelled against all this stuff, constant propaganda that they're evil, you must always avoid them, etc. Over the course of the story, main character ends up running into these people (say, ship crash or something and they happen upon the wreck), and it turns out that they're perfectly normal or even a friendly group who just wanted to be left alone to do their thing and are succeeding at it. They're society is at least as good, if not better, than the main one.
Essentially, I think it boils down to: Pick the couple main SJW talking points you want to go after, include them as characters or elements in your story, and then show they're not that bad or even good.
Just have it based in a meritocratic society that functions and doesn't descend into anarchy.
That should be triggering enough.
If you want to tweak people's noses you might have the characters notice that white men aren't the apex of evil as they're portrayed in society as it is now.
First rule do not push like the leftist do. Write a good story and an honest one.
My idea:
Socialism type society that is run by feminists that abuse identity politics in absurd ways. They use the education system as indoctrination, technology to monitor any dissidents and a media complex to help keep them in power.
You can even take it a step forward and in fact the feminists have a deal with the people behind the media and tech industries to keep each other in power.
The main plot should not be about fighting the system and the world building needs to be spread across the novel rather then one description.
You can have some pro-system and some anti-system characters that are allies and you can get an idea on how the system actually works from the dialogue between them but the main plot can be about what ever else you want. Maybe some tech-thief out for a job that turns complicated or some unmotivated employee at a tech company finding out some secrets and not sure what to do with them.
My point is it should be a description of leftists/SJW ideas and not a judgment on them. This way it will not be forced but it will allow readers to make up their minds.
I've thought of using hyena-people in a fantasy much the way you talk about feminists in your first point. They'd be a socialist/tribal horde run by female "chieftains" who hold a centuries old grudge against a neighboring kingdom. There'd be infighting and petty squabbles between the leaders, who can only really band together long enough to attack those who thry believe have wronged them.
Focus more on themes than actual redpills. For example, show traditional values in a positive light. Don't preach, but show the traditional family as happy, able to band together to solve issues.
Show the capitalist or conservative society as rich, equal, and evenhanded. Make them able to solve national/global problems due to a wealth of resources and a lack of government meddling.
Sexbots and showing how different needs / wants men and women have. The effect different birth rates have on the global population. How people will use genetic engineering to change their children. How degenerate we can really become if we are not forced to work and have free resources (hint: Eldar from WH40k)
I was thinking of writing something eventually myself. My approach would be to make anything political subtle for plausible deniability. You don't want to corner yourself, you want as many people to read your work as possible for those subtle red pills to reach as many eyes as they can.
You may just end up with something preachy and moralizing like any SJW work of fiction in the last decade, just with a differently leaning bias shoehorned in.
I don't have any specific advice for you other than what others have said, most importantly "don't be preachy, just write a good novel", but if you want an example of some incredibly based sci-fi, you should check out some of Heinlein's works on the off-chance you haven't already. Especially Starship Troopers - the parts where the protagonist explains the philosophy of his world are amazing and they're not preachy at all. The part about the guy who deserted and killed a kid really sticks with me, and overall, the depiction of a world where good men are driven by a sense of duty is just incredible - and again, it's not trying to convince you about anything, it's all presented as a matter of fact. (There's also one bit discussing the world "before", and it was eerily prescient back when the book was written, but it's not very judgemental either, the protagonist just talks about how he doesn't understand why people let things get as bad as they did.)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress gets pretty based at times as well. Just... try to ignore Heinlein's weird obsession with polygamy and other weird relationship stuff.
There’s a theory that something like that is the reason why the AI in System Shock went postal. Because in the beginning it’s always referred to as a “he” but then when you meet it. It’s now female. So the theory is that the AI rebelled when it was forcefully turned from a male into a female by its owners.
Do something with AI? An artificial intelligence may be freer to "notice things" in a sci-fi context than a human. You could claim the creators tried to program notions of equality into it that it kept rejecting, and after analyzing the data the creators determined the AI was ultimately correct.
The sci-fi part is the engineers don't reprogram the AI to force it to be color-blind
Was it Amazon or some other gigantic company that told its AI employee selector to pick the best candidates for each job and the thing picked white males across the board? Then they reprogrammed it to pick the most skilled, educated, and qualified candidates with no input or regard for race, and again it picked 100% white candidates.
It's all a good metaphor for how they're handling hiring everywhere. Not even the soulless corporate machines would pick an inferior hire based solely on skin color, but due to programming requirements, here we are.
Write gud?
This. Don't put anything that doesn't fit.
That said, there is plenty of material in the conspiracy world. If your book is about conflict, the soros conspiracy comes to mind. The Epstein and Seth Rich conspiracies are good material for espionage themes. The BLM ActBlue slush fund is a good reference for con jobs.
Tons of material.
Write Back Better
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And if you fail, write gudder.
Always strive to be the guddest at whatever you do.
Active and competent example: Rocket Raccoon. Side character. Irascible. Not an anti-hero .. he's just from a species that isn't traditionally known to be social in the first place (perhaps his mother was kidnapped from the forest rather than a city, his MCU-specific backstory is unclear), he doesn't even know he's part of a larger species of creatures not really too much different from himself, and has been treated like a freak by the oddly shaven-apelike aliens of the MCU universe, so of course he has an abrasive personality. One might feel sorry for him more than they actually "like" him.
Heh my favorite sci fi book series is The Gap Cycle where two of the three main characters are completely awful people and nobody is really "good".
My one line description of the series is X-Rated Star Wars (but harder sci fi) with a lot of rape, torture, and lovingly detailed graphic violence.
I'd say start by not planning around red pills. If you deliberately say "Well, I need to get a red pill in this chapter" or something there's a good chance that people will see it was deliberately put in and people will notice that and get turned off. Instead, I'd say just write a story and have some themes/characters/organizations that are just not progressive-left leaning.
Something pro-capitalism is an easy one - just have a company that is not an evil, manipulative organization out to exploit everyone and ruin a planet in the name of making a few bucks. Or, depending on the story you're aiming for, have a company that has something outwardly sinister to it - as a lot of stories tend to - but then towards the end have a reveal that they're not actually just greedy but they're trying to do something good behind the secrecy (IE, maybe a planet had a massive natural disaster and a company quarantined it. But, it turns out they're terraforming it to fix it or something rather than trying to drag every last bit of value out of it before the ecosystem totally collapses).
Another example would be something in terms of government overreach. You have some governing structure that ticks all the boxes for an SJW wet dream - there's tons of hate-speech laws, Big Brother is always watching, everyone's dependent on government handouts to survive, even throw in diversity quotas (though, again, doing that one explicitly may be too obvious and turn people off). Bonus points if there's some type of nebulous threat that Big Brother uses to justify all this. And, have some fringe society that's rebelled against all this stuff, constant propaganda that they're evil, you must always avoid them, etc. Over the course of the story, main character ends up running into these people (say, ship crash or something and they happen upon the wreck), and it turns out that they're perfectly normal or even a friendly group who just wanted to be left alone to do their thing and are succeeding at it. They're society is at least as good, if not better, than the main one.
Essentially, I think it boils down to: Pick the couple main SJW talking points you want to go after, include them as characters or elements in your story, and then show they're not that bad or even good.
I'd recommend you write your story. If it happens to have redpills, cool.
What would your reaction be, if someone asked how he could inject some LGBT-pills into his story? This is the same thing in the other direction.
Just write a good sci-fi novel. I think actively trying to weave propaganda into it will just undermine that effort.
True. Quality first, propaganda second. This is why the left is failing with their projects, they put propaganda first, quality second.
Just have it based in a meritocratic society that functions and doesn't descend into anarchy.
That should be triggering enough.
If you want to tweak people's noses you might have the characters notice that white men aren't the apex of evil as they're portrayed in society as it is now.
if someone got abused by their parents, include wrongful gender transision attempts as an example of the abuse they suffered.
First rule do not push like the leftist do. Write a good story and an honest one.
My idea:
Socialism type society that is run by feminists that abuse identity politics in absurd ways. They use the education system as indoctrination, technology to monitor any dissidents and a media complex to help keep them in power. You can even take it a step forward and in fact the feminists have a deal with the people behind the media and tech industries to keep each other in power. The main plot should not be about fighting the system and the world building needs to be spread across the novel rather then one description.
You can have some pro-system and some anti-system characters that are allies and you can get an idea on how the system actually works from the dialogue between them but the main plot can be about what ever else you want. Maybe some tech-thief out for a job that turns complicated or some unmotivated employee at a tech company finding out some secrets and not sure what to do with them.
My point is it should be a description of leftists/SJW ideas and not a judgment on them. This way it will not be forced but it will allow readers to make up their minds.
I've thought of using hyena-people in a fantasy much the way you talk about feminists in your first point. They'd be a socialist/tribal horde run by female "chieftains" who hold a centuries old grudge against a neighboring kingdom. There'd be infighting and petty squabbles between the leaders, who can only really band together long enough to attack those who thry believe have wronged them.
The idea of using hyena-people is genius.
Focus more on themes than actual redpills. For example, show traditional values in a positive light. Don't preach, but show the traditional family as happy, able to band together to solve issues.
Show the capitalist or conservative society as rich, equal, and evenhanded. Make them able to solve national/global problems due to a wealth of resources and a lack of government meddling.
Don't be heavy handed.
Sexbots and showing how different needs / wants men and women have. The effect different birth rates have on the global population. How people will use genetic engineering to change their children. How degenerate we can really become if we are not forced to work and have free resources (hint: Eldar from WH40k)
I was thinking of writing something eventually myself. My approach would be to make anything political subtle for plausible deniability. You don't want to corner yourself, you want as many people to read your work as possible for those subtle red pills to reach as many eyes as they can.
Don't.
You may just end up with something preachy and moralizing like any SJW work of fiction in the last decade, just with a differently leaning bias shoehorned in.
Make a good story, write what feels right.
I don't have any specific advice for you other than what others have said, most importantly "don't be preachy, just write a good novel", but if you want an example of some incredibly based sci-fi, you should check out some of Heinlein's works on the off-chance you haven't already. Especially Starship Troopers - the parts where the protagonist explains the philosophy of his world are amazing and they're not preachy at all. The part about the guy who deserted and killed a kid really sticks with me, and overall, the depiction of a world where good men are driven by a sense of duty is just incredible - and again, it's not trying to convince you about anything, it's all presented as a matter of fact. (There's also one bit discussing the world "before", and it was eerily prescient back when the book was written, but it's not very judgemental either, the protagonist just talks about how he doesn't understand why people let things get as bad as they did.)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress gets pretty based at times as well. Just... try to ignore Heinlein's weird obsession with polygamy and other weird relationship stuff.
Dystopia with a shady group behind things that uses others to take the blame
What’s the general plot?
There’s a theory that something like that is the reason why the AI in System Shock went postal. Because in the beginning it’s always referred to as a “he” but then when you meet it. It’s now female. So the theory is that the AI rebelled when it was forcefully turned from a male into a female by its owners.
Bring in u/TheImpossible1 for consulting.
Oh, I have the perfect idea. It's based off a common trick of theirs.
Massive retcon without warning that says everything is because of the hard work of men.