True Sources of Pleasure and Making True Fiction

Nature is beautiful and for a human being the nature and universe other than love and family are only true sources of pleasure. I mean there are other sources of pleasures too but since I have seen the extent of political interference in the lives of people, nature and universe stand out as the true sources of joy. Even the pleasure from love and family can be sabotaged but nature and universe still stay. Stories are built by characters and characters are built by getting inspired by people. You read Harry Potter and it is based on people, witches and wizards yes, but they are basically people struggling with politics of their world. When relationships become inauthentic it is this connection with people we have, that stories are based upon, gets affected and it is here due to the politics, stories become redundant. Though stories about the personal struggles still remain authentic. Like a person navigating the systems of the world or fighting against a system that is hell bent on changing him or even destroying him. These kinds of stories will always matter. To deal with the problems of the politics of our world and the depth of the control we need to create new worlds which have different settings and rules. Just like the world of Star Wars or the world of Harry Potter or any other fictional world like the worlds and universes in the comics. Middle Earth in the Lord of The Rings handles the political problems of our world in a fantastical world made by its creator. The totalitarianism of our world and redundancy of relationships, when you know enough truth, is the main problem in creating lasting fiction based on the real world in today’s times. When you set up a setting, if you are true as an artist, you would also have to show the things going on in the background which are invisible to most. The sad part is that the puppeteers of our world and society do not let the puppets know that they are being manipulated and that their life, sometimes their whole life, is manipulated. When an artist knows the truth he has to not only show the things going on in the lives of the characters but also the background and when he is dealing with truth in fiction the ones in the background, the political actors, manipulating people and doing social engineering of the society also become characters because they too have motivations. The truth is that people do not have autonomy of their bodies and minds or if they have it’s granted as a privilege that could be taken back any day and so the characters if we are dealing with our world in fiction become inauthentic. Think of it as Agent Smith possessing the body of an everyman in the Matrix, is the everyman whose body is possessed by Agents in the movie Matrix responsible for what the Agents do through his body? That’s the basic question. When the whole game is rigged the onus really falls on the one who are manipulating people unlike the people like Neo who are free and freely making their choices though sadly, no one, at least the ones who are not privileged enough to have autonomy, has a hundred percent free will in this political setting and given the setting the autonomy can range from minus to forty, my own autonomy on my body and mind is one percent though I can override it enough to make sense of things happening to me and document them. So it is here nature and universe become important because they are the only things that are not tainted by politics or deep politics. As far as writing fiction goes, I’m still making sense of how to make sense of the submerged part of the iceberg that is existence in writing, especially when characters don’t have autonomy in fiction based on the real world, blaming characters for doing something that is not their fault isn't right and so the acknowledgement of the hidden layer of control is essential.