There was a whole group of Wyndham Harks executives there, and one of them had this quote he liked: ‘We’re an empire now and when we act, we create our own reality.’ But he didn’t mean I got to act and create my own reality, no, no. He meant they—people like him, people who mattered—were the ones whose actions mattered, the ones who’d create reality for the rest of us, and the rest of us had to obey and fall into line with their vision of the world.
