Ask the Author: Christopher Hall
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Christopher Hall
I ignore it. I don't give it any time. I block it.
Christopher Hall
Time to be alone with oneself.
Christopher Hall
If you are not moved to write, go dig a long trench and fill it back in.
Christopher Hall
This past year I was struck by my muse to write poems that deeply love-related that are not romantic but are existential in nature. They do not rhyme, which means the words do not compromise their meanings for fatuous alliteration and such. Those who I have shown them to have cried. My description of courting a woman and the intense sadness that effort required to be successful is an example of the content. I paraphrased Shakespeare in one poem by saying "Loving you is such sweet sorrow," because loving her was so sorrowful.
Christopher Hall
One day I felt the urge to write at length about the topic of being utterly reliant on a system we do not control, a political economy owned and managed by an extreme minority who themselves barely control despite all their efforts to do so. My concern is how fragile our arrangement is and how likely it is to become upset by natural and human events.
I was struck by the thought that we are all living in a fairytale, and that reality was harsh and hidden from view: no we do not have agency in our lives, we are not sovereign unto ourselves, we are akin to farm animals who enrich the farmer who owns and manages the farm, we are utterly reliant upon a system of work-shop-vote we do not control and most of the infotainment we experience masks all of this. The situation is so bleak it requires extensive examples and explanations coming from every facet of our lives, which is what the book consists of.
I was struck by the thought that we are all living in a fairytale, and that reality was harsh and hidden from view: no we do not have agency in our lives, we are not sovereign unto ourselves, we are akin to farm animals who enrich the farmer who owns and manages the farm, we are utterly reliant upon a system of work-shop-vote we do not control and most of the infotainment we experience masks all of this. The situation is so bleak it requires extensive examples and explanations coming from every facet of our lives, which is what the book consists of.
Christopher Hall
I want to speak with others about the concerns I have with the world we live in and realized most people don't understand the world we live in, so I wrote "The Reality Creators" subtitled An Epic Fairytale About Life On Earth. I felt as if I lived in a society where I spoke a foreign language and few understood me, so I wrote a book so I could talk to others.
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Jun 10, 2020 09:58PM · flag