No Representation Without Art Creation
By Michael McGruther (@WriterMcG)
By now it should be clear to you that politicians answer to corporations and corporations are in a symbiotic relationship with artists that create the cultural reality that serves the corporations and politicians.
Did you get all of that?
Never mind that all three should be separate from one another but here we are in the middle of a bizarre, yet totally expected reign of psychological terror in the form of theatrical political narrative that seeks to divide people against each other in pursuit of new markets to sell to, while consolidating all power into the hands of few global elites behind the scenes where the wizard is well hidden.
This is not America. It is a sub-divided corporate marketplace that is made to feel like a cage match fight to the death over media and government attention.
There’s no way out of this plot until we - the people - turn inward and establish our own underground marketplace where unity can be cultivated and maintained.
Corporations and politicians deploy politically branded narrative storytelling to upset the foundations of American life.
All narrative requires a hero (protagonist), a conflict and an antagonist in order to resonate with the human heart and mind. And when you resonate you hold the keys to the audience’s attention.
The hero in our modern horror story is the Government. The conflict will always be how much power it has over the people. But the antagonist is you and I. For now.
Because that is how story works and that is all this era is built upon - corporate myth and political narrative story - this structure will never be displaced.
The hero, conflict and antagonist are going nowhere but we can work together to reverse the roles and restore the balance of power back into hands of the people, who are the true hero’s and take it away from the governments and corporations which are the real antagonists to American life.
Situational awareness needs to become storytelling awareness. By stopping to reflect and consider where you exist in the corporate political plot, you can begin to see the con that it really is, and once that happens you are half-way free from the spell.
The next step is learning to hack the plot by establishing a healthy practice of ideological inconsistency so that you are never quite one extreme or the other, but rather you are a stubborn independent American who can meet almost any citizen half-way.
The possibility of half-way is one of the blessings of American life.
Let’s meet there again and work to raise up heroes, legends and myths who defeat the dragon by putting it back in it’s cage.
