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The Reality Creators The Reality Creators An Epic Fairytale About Life On Earth By Christopher Hall The Reality Creators COPYRIGHT © 2021 BY CHRISTOPHER HALL ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ISBN: 978-1-7923-3330-9 (e-book) ISBN: 979-8-6183-2728-2 (paperback) Cover Design by Christopher Hall Goat photograph by Smuj Smujington Printed in the USA The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the address below: [email protected] Upon a great scene has descended people who've come running to help from the right and the left, and no matter how they view the event and from what angle, they all care to be of service. This book is for them. We are like water drops that make up a watershed, a connected flow from the first drop wetting the soil to the millions more that make up a puddle and flow down a ditch, into a creek, that flows to the river, and out into the ocean that is all of us. That little drop is spread out everywhere and is one with all the other drops. Together they float up into the sky, rain down upon the earth, support life, water trees, plants, and animals, and fill the seas in a never-ending cycle. Contents Author's Note .....................................................................8 Introduction ......................................................................10 Part One What's Going On 1. Alpha & Omega ............................................................17 2. Reality Creators ............................................................30 3. People Vote, They Don't Lobby; Corporations Lobby, They Don't Vote .............................48 4. When The Reality Creators Make Money, They Make It From Us .....................................................61 5. Real Fiction ..................................................................79 Part Two Why It's A Problem 6. Why Reality Creators Cannot Be Trusted ...................94 7. Reports Of A Conspiracy Are Suspect ......................105 8. People Eat And Poop, Corporations Feed and Lay Waste .................................118 Part Three How It Gets Worse 9. Vertigo …....................................................................129 10. On Our Own Together ..............................................145 Afterword ........................................................................154 Endnotes, Sources, and Further Descriptions .................158 Author's Note I grew up on a farm in Vermont before making my way through an uptight boarding school, a Quaker college, and three years of grad school. These experiences led to my career as a performing arts producer and designer. I always thought arts and agriculture were my callings. I began to live a mission- driven life in San Diego; then, years later, I brought that mission to Oregon as a homesteader. Throughout, I have sought to cultivate compassionate social action in all my endeavors. To this purpose, my work has included producing dozens of critically acclaimed performances and festivals, participating in long-term urban redevelopment planning, homesteading, fundraising for the arts, and starting up two farmers' markets. This book is one such endeavor, and I hope to inspire readers to act compassionately. Homesteading has offered me more than a decade to research and explore our society from a distant perch nestled in a rurally isolated and generationally impoverished region. I have approached my critique of society as I would a play script, and this book is the production of it. I thank Gina LoPreste, who formed the mission to cultivate compassionate social action with me. Gina produced some of the greatest works of dance-theatre of our generation, farms prodigiously, and periodically edited this book. I also thank Robert Hall Sr. who provided copy edits at a very early stage, and to Drs. John and Christine Gardiner for providing editing as well. I hesitate to mention a cursory review offered by a college friend at the earliest stage years ago when this book was in gestation: he said I had written an anti-intellectual treatise. This critique had the most profound impact on me over the years as the book evolved. I could think of nothing but the horrific and renowned totalitarian dictators of the past. They eviscerated their societies and wiped out intellectuals in the course of perpetrating some of the world's worst historical evils. Over the past eight years, mindful of his critique, I have explored whether populism is anti-intellectual and if discontent is the ironic trade- off for the comfort of civilization. Christopher Hall, January 2021 The world is a big place with seven billion inhabitants. Who cares if a wealthy minority of less than one percent wishes to go off on their own and do as they please, living their lives, however, wherever they want, lavished in such extraordinary luxury and opulence that none of the rest of the world's people could ever dream of such an existence? Introduction Reality Creators are oligarchs and plutocrats who own and manage the political economy; they are less than one percent of the population. They run the private sector in their capacity as corporate executives and board members. They also manage the public sector in their capacity as political donors, lobbyists, elected officials, and high-level appointees. Reality Creators' hirelings work in media, law, think tanks, and finance. They go back and forth through the revolving door between the public and private sectors; they are among the wealthiest 10% of the population. They stridently defend their position to prevent losing it and falling back into the lower ranks. The rest of us, the vast majority, have no agency to control the political economy. If the Reality Creators are the farm owners, then their hirelings are the farmhands, and we are the livestock. This is how it has always been.1 Reality Creators have contended for centuries that if we give up some of our rights to form their governments and corporations they head, then we shall get equal value in care and comfort from them in return. This agreement is called our Social Contract. It's a form of rent we pay, not unlike the deal Medieval peasants had with nobles when they traded in their livelihoods for security. I compare this to how my goats have always appeared to consent to being fed, fenced-in, and milked. The term Consent of the Governed is an idea that has evolved throughout the ages. It sets the parameters for our Social Contract. Today, our civilization consists of corporate entities who provide us what we need in life in trade for the work we do and government entities that manage us with their laws in trade for the votes of political support we give them. It's called the corporate-government complex, and we consent to it. It's not a bad gig for those few who do well in the system. But it's not such a good deal for the rest of us because the terms and provisions of the Social Contract have never been as honest or just as we've been told they are. We build more wealth for the Reality Creators than we do for ourselves, and we are subject to their strict laws, rules, and regulations we do not write. We've lost more control over our lives than we bargained for, and this loss has bred widespread discontent and a predisposition by the populace to be on the defensive. Reality Creators have a keen interest in reducing friction in our social system as citizens have begun to withdraw some of their consent. Therefore, Reality Creators use their corporate media to obscure the irony that discontent is an inevitable result in the trade-off for the comforts of civilization.2 They tell us the party is still going on and that Everything Will Be OK because, for them, it still is. For too much of the world, however, it is not. The Reality Creators is a children's book for adults: it tells a real story from a perspective that will seem like fiction. It's a complex fairytale about what's really going on. If you have ever asked yourself why life is hard or more of a struggle than you signed up for at birth, this book helps explain the reasons from a perspective that requires brutal honesty. When explanations become clear about how we got to where we are today, they appear so ludicrous that it's hard to believe they're true. The reason is that we live in a fairytale world that feels real and present, but what's actually real and present is alienated and not readily apparent. This is due to the constant presence of our built environment that continues to ape Disney World architecture. It is also due to the constant stream of fantasia-like advertising on screens, billboards, and business signs; due to the perception that corporations are our friends, family, and emotional partners whom we bring home to live with as paternal suppliers of everything we need in life to survive; due to the persistent narratives in T.V. shows, streaming video content on the web, and movies, all of which are highly engineered to dramatically capture the senses and sensibilities of the populace to direct their behavior; and due to the dramatic presentation of news and politics in the media that fabricate the partisanship of our daily lives more than the rivalries present in football games. The modern world is upside down: we experience and live each day in a virtual, dramatic reality. What's actually real appears unreal, if not impossible to believe, after so many decades of exposure to such fictional drama.
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