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Dystopian fiction is the best, it is like eating a box of donuts for the skeptically minded person. Probably lowest hanging fruit possible, but if you have no idea what the fuck is going on- it is a great place to start to understand the relationship that the average person has with the elites, who essentially live in a completely different dimension to most normal people.
Often times inspired by dictatorships like Maoist China, the Soviet Union, National Socialist Germany or Fascist Italy. Although one problem with Dystopian fiction is that often times it fails to properly depict a dystopian society that has the illusion of freedom, like modern western countries.
It is not that modern western countries are becoming more totalitarian over time (although that is somewhat true) it is more so that modern western countries are being influenced and controlled with a completely different methodology as opposed to the traditional totalitarian playbook.
Dystopian fiction often becomes very alien, bizarre and unrecognizable to western audiences because elites in western countries simply do not use the same tactics to influence, control and propagandize. There is a lot of misdirection, enforced ignorance, psychological operations and a lot of 5th generation warfare that is utilized to steer western civilization, because elites in western countries know that traditional authoritarianism is chaotic, risky and dangerous for them. If they were going to advocate for it, they are going to do so slowly and ease into it. It's more like a last ditch effort for them to maintain control as opposed to the 1st option on their mind.
They much prefer to create the illusion of freedom through warping societal and cultural norms to create certain outcomes that they want, as opposed to directly using a police state to enforce those outcomes. The modern elite are dreadfully fearful of having to even be in the position of a dictator, they would much rather have their cake and eat it too as opposed to be the only ones eating cake, inside the inner cadre of a police state.
So, I don't really believe that any author or director has come up with a futuristic consumerist, capitalistic corporate dystopia. It's actually really difficult and if you did make an accurate one you would probably be targeted by the elites, who use networks of secret societies to influence and steer from the safety of anonymity and many layers of underlings who always take the fall for them if they are caught doing anything publicly illegal. Globalist new world order types who are often times only the face of the face of the face of who is actually responsible for whatever agenda is being carried out.
I recommend watching: Brazil, 1984, Blade Runner 2049, Blade Runner 1982, Snow piercer (the show, not the movie), Idiocracy, A Clockwork Orange, Akira (1988). THX 1138 (1971), Ghost in the Shell (1995), Robocop (1987), Demolition Man (1993), Soylent Green (1973)
Obviously read 1984, animal farm, brave new world, fahrenheit 451, anthem, etc. It is important however to remember that dystopia can be created without direct totalitarian measures.