The Reality Creators: An Epic Fairytale About Life On Earth by Christopher Hall

Author:Christopher Hall [Hall, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Christopher Hall
Published: 2020-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

People Eat and Poop,

Corporations Feed and Lay Waste

There are many ways the Reality Creators control us to extract our wealth efficiently. Beyond manipulating our government as an HR department to manage us through their executive, legislative, judicial, police, and military control; beyond marketing purchases to us as if we had a meaningful choice; beyond controlling us through our labor-consumer-voter function; even beyond the debt-control they have over us, there is one necessity closely related to our immediate, everyday existence that's worth noting above all else at the core of our daily lives: eating. It's been said, “you are what you eat.” In this chapter, we're going to explore what we've become.

Farmers feed their flocks and have control over the animals' sustenance and water. It may seem no big deal, but if they're late with hay in the evening, the goats complain noisily, and if the chickens haven't gotten their food scraps on time, they flock like crazy when they do. The farmer never considers missing a feeding, as that would be an utter catastrophe when the animals started revolting. The noise, the maltreatment of each other, the structural damage done to the stalls, and the eventual attack on the farmer when the feeding resumed would all but prevent being late for feeding, ever.[1] It would not be unlike urban riots.

Our food production and distribution technology have changed due to modern advancements. Now, the food we eat is processed and put in front of our mouths like we are babies. In the past, we were more self-reliant about feeding ourselves. Today we are reliant on the Reality Creators' corporations for the food and liquids we drink, from the chlorinated municipal water supplies and well pumps we buy to the genetically modified and patented seeds to the scientifically engineered and processed fast food. An important distinction between the past and present is that we grew the food and fed the bosses. Today, it's the opposite, and they feed us.

There's a number line along which we find ourselves regarding how we acquire, prepare, and eat our food. That line, a continuum, has on the one side people incapable of feeding themselves, to those on the other side who can feed themselves from the dirt of the Earth. Before WWII, people could feed themselves in close-knit families. Often, families made home-cooked recipes from scratch, with bread, meat, and vegetables raised on the property or grown regionally. While the food was simple and repetitious, sometimes even downright trash, today, our food is surprisingly simple, repetitious, and junk as well.

After WWII, corporations developed agribusiness, producing mass quantities of corn, soy, wheat, rice, potatoes, dairy, and meat at economies of scale that reduced the costs below the prevailing wholesale prices at which small farms sold their crops. It was just enough to put out of business the dinner table economics of the family farm. In the last century, the U.S. went from having more than 50% of the population farming to only one percent.[2] People who

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