Should I be concerned with my fiction writing containing accidental prophecies of real world events?

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I'm writing a book (only a hobby, but I hope I can publish it one day). I've started writing a while ago and setting was somewhat of a near-future of an alternative reality.In my book, political situation in several countries changed dramatically. Changes are rather dark and worrying and in time of writing I could not have imagined anything like that actually happening. However, as time passes, I see that there are many events and changes in real world that are really similar to what happened in the book (close friends who have read these chapters are calling me Cassandra already). Fortunately, we haven't reached what happens next (in the book), but I guess we might.Should I be changing my setting so that it doesn't resemble (or at least doesn't obviously match) actual countries and events? Should I abandon my hopes of publishing it because of such a close resemblance? Or should I proceed as is?Question is not only about how things are now, but also about what to do if situation in real world reaches to the same outcome (I'd prefer it wouldn't).*P.S. Feel free to edit tags as I'm new to the site and not sure which tags suit best.***UPD**For sure, I don't think that my writing had changed anything in real world. And I don't care much if I'm just good at seeing what can happen and why, or if it's a coincidence.What bothers me, is that if events continue to develop in same way as in my writing, and after some time I do publish it, I don't want it to be some kind of "what would happen if Caribbean crisis wasn't resolved" (if things go differently than in the book) or "how secret service helped resolve Caribbean crisis" (if things go more or less as in the book). And I definitely don't want it to be a headlines novel that is only actual for a short time after the event...

Answer 1

I would say keep writing and don't worry about how much it may overlap with what is going on in the world right now. Currently there is so much that people do realize and much more we don't, so it would be astonishing if you were able to know everything in the world and predict the outcomes.

An example of fictional forecasting would be any number of Simpsons episodes people often cite as "causing" something based on a conspiracy theory when it is more likely the authors thought it would be funny or interesting to have X event happen. Sure enough, X event did wind up happening so many years down the road, but the end results were not the exact same and there was no causation and arguably no correlation between the two either.