{"id":118309,"date":"2026-09-22T21:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/?p=118309"},"modified":"2026-09-22T21:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:39:03","slug":"stop-keeping-the-world-in-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/stop-keeping-the-world-in-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Keeping the World in a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang=\"en\">\n<head>\n  <meta charset=\"UTF-8\">\n  <meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\">\n\n  <title>Stop Keeping the World in a Dream<\/title>\n\n  <style>\n    * {\n      box-sizing: border-box;\n    }\n\n    body {\n      margin: 0;\n      background: #f4f0e8;\n      color: #161616;\n      font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif;\n      line-height: 1.72;\n    }\n\n    .article-wrap {\n      width: min(880px, calc(100% - 36px));\n      margin: 0 auto;\n      padding: 70px 0 90px;\n    }\n\n    article {\n      background: #fffdf8;\n      padding: 58px 64px 66px;\n      border-top: 8px solid #111;\n      box-shadow: 0 10px 35px rgba(0,0,0,0.07);\n    }\n\n    h1 {\n      margin: 0 0 38px;\n      max-width: 720px;\n      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\n      font-size: clamp(2.5rem, 6vw, 4.8rem);\n      line-height: 0.98;\n      letter-spacing: -0.055em;\n      font-weight: 900;\n    }\n\n    p {\n      margin: 0 0 1.35em;\n      font-size: 1.18rem;\n    }\n\n    .opening {\n      font-size: 1.28rem;\n      line-height: 1.65;\n    }\n\n    .wake-up {\n      margin: 42px 0;\n      padding: 28px 0;\n      border-top: 2px solid #111;\n      border-bottom: 2px solid #111;\n      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\n      font-size: clamp(1.6rem, 4vw, 2.35rem);\n      font-weight: 800;\n      line-height: 1.16;\n      letter-spacing: -0.025em;\n    }\n\n    .command {\n      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\n      font-size: 1.45rem;\n      font-weight: 800;\n    }\n\n    .attack {\n      margin: 38px 0;\n      padding-left: 22px;\n      border-left: 6px solid #111;\n      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\n      font-size: 1.35rem;\n      line-height: 1.45;\n      font-weight: 800;\n    }\n\n    .little-box {\n      margin: 35px 0;\n      padding: 30px 32px;\n      background: #171717;\n      color: #fff;\n      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\n    }\n\n    .little-box p {\n      margin: 0 0 9px;\n      font-size: 1.13rem;\n      line-height: 1.45;\n    }\n\n    .little-box p:last-child {\n      margin-bottom: 0;\n    }\n\n    .roll-credits {\n      margin-top: 20px !important;\n      font-size: 1.35rem !important;\n      font-weight: 900;\n    }\n\n    .big-line {\n      margin: 42px 0 30px;\n      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\n      font-size: clamp(1.8rem, 4vw, 2.8rem);\n      line-height: 1.05;\n      font-weight: 900;\n      letter-spacing: -0.03em;\n    }\n\n    .show-me {\n      font-size: 1.22rem;\n    }\n\n    .dream-line {\n      margin: 42px 0;\n      padding: 30px;\n      background: #ece5d7;\n      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\n      font-size: 1.55rem;\n      line-height: 1.3;\n      font-weight: 800;\n    }\n\n    .boring {\n      margin: 34px 0;\n      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\n      font-size: clamp(2rem, 5vw, 3.4rem);\n      line-height: 1;\n      font-weight: 900;\n      letter-spacing: -0.04em;\n    }\n\n    .ending {\n      margin-top: 46px;\n      padding-top: 34px;\n      border-top: 4px solid #111;\n      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\n      font-size: clamp(1.8rem, 4vw, 2.65rem);\n      line-height: 1.15;\n      font-weight: 900;\n      letter-spacing: -0.03em;\n    }\n\n    @media (max-width: 650px) {\n      .article-wrap {\n        width: 100%;\n        padding: 0;\n      }\n\n      article {\n        padding: 38px 22px 55px;\n        box-shadow: none;\n      }\n\n      p,\n      .opening,\n      .show-me {\n        font-size: 1.08rem;\n      }\n\n      .little-box {\n        margin-left: -22px;\n        margin-right: -22px;\n        padding: 28px 22px;\n      }\n    }\n  <\/style>\n<\/head>\n\n<body>\n\n  <main class=\"article-wrap\">\n    <article>\n\n      <h1>Stop Keeping the World in a Dream<\/h1>\n\n      <p class=\"opening\">\n        I\u2019m utterly bored. These stupid depictions in these Chinese dramas, with their cheesy CEO men or boss women trampling on their underlings&#8230; utter foolish illusions. I\u2019m utterly bored. Jump over to Nigeria\u2019s degrading relationship depictions, BBL monstrosities, actresses whose greatest aim as a woman is the achievement of a Peruvian weave. Switch to K-dramas and their indecisive, wimpy men and women, and there is no wonder their birth rate sucks. American media, their mother, mommy of all these channel spinoffs, and the B.B.C., the grandmother, the originators of woeful propaganda and destructive lies.\n      <\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"wake-up\">\n        Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if you all disappeared so the world could wake up?\n      <\/div>\n\n      <p class=\"command\">Stop keeping the world in a dream.<\/p>\n\n      <p>What bores me is the repetition of such a tiny imagination of human life.<\/p>\n\n      <p>Different countries package it differently, but the machinery becomes painfully familiar.<\/p>\n\n      <p>The rich CEO is powerful because everyone beneath him trembles. The boss woman proves herself by being colder, harder and more unpleasant than everybody else. Romance is humiliation, jealousy, misunderstanding and status.<\/p>\n\n      <p>Move countries and the clothes change.<\/p>\n\n      <p>Now the woman has the enormous manufactured backside, the expensive weave, the house, the car, the man with money. Everybody is upgrading, competing, betraying, showing off, scheming or trying to enter somebody else\u2019s social class.<\/p>\n\n      <p>Move again.<\/p>\n\n      <p>Two adults apparently love one another, but neither can manage one straightforward conversation for sixteen episodes. A relationship that could move forward before lunchtime has to survive three months of staring, walking away, almost speaking, misunderstanding and staring again.<\/p>\n\n      <p>America and Britain have been feeding the machine for generations: affairs, broken homes, power games, endless romantic replacement, status, violence, humiliation, consumption and dysfunction packaged as entertainment.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"attack\">\n        Your fucking illusions diminish the brain and imagination. Aren\u2019t you tired of your own selves? You have lost the plot. You don\u2019t edify; you perpetuate the stupidness.\n      <\/div>\n\n      <p>And apparently the combined imagination of enormous entertainment industries across half the planet keeps arriving at the same little box of toys.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"little-box\">\n        <p>Boss crushes employee.<\/p>\n        <p>Rich person humiliates poor person.<\/p>\n        <p>Woman acquires correct body.<\/p>\n        <p>Man acquires correct watch.<\/p>\n        <p>Somebody cheats.<\/p>\n        <p>Somebody misunderstands something that one honest sentence would solve.<\/p>\n        <p>Everybody wants entry into the same hierarchy.<\/p>\n        <p class=\"roll-credits\">Roll credits.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <p>Is this really all you have to imagine?<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"big-line\">Actual human life is enormous.<\/div>\n\n      <p class=\"show-me\">Show me a husband and wife building something together.<\/p>\n\n      <p class=\"show-me\">Show me a family trying to create a different way of living.<\/p>\n\n      <p class=\"show-me\">Show me people planting food beside a road and wondering what happens next.<\/p>\n\n      <p class=\"show-me\">Show me children actually changing the adults around them instead of existing as decorative props.<\/p>\n\n      <p class=\"show-me\">Show me grandparents who are still fully alive inside the story.<\/p>\n\n      <p class=\"show-me\">Show me families solving problems, failing, arguing, laughing, inventing things, raising children, growing food, building houses, travelling, caring for somebody who is sick, questioning the society around them and trying again.<\/p>\n\n      <p class=\"show-me\">Show me marriage after the wedding. Parenthood after the baby arrives. People making things with their hands. People wrestling with faith. People growing old without disappearing from the story. People creating something that did not exist before.<\/p>\n\n      <p>There is so much actual human life sitting there almost untouched.<\/p>\n\n      <p>Yet television keeps producing another billionaire CEO with emotional constipation.<\/p>\n\n      <p>Another woman whose transformation apparently requires a new body, new hair and somebody richer standing beside her.<\/p>\n\n      <p>Another relationship built from two adults refusing to speak.<\/p>\n\n      <p>Another family destroyed because destruction creates another season.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"dream-line\">\n        You keep handing people the same dreams until they forget there were other things to dream about.\n      <\/div>\n\n      <p>Waiting on these nitwits to wake you up&#8230; impossible. All of you dragging yourselves to work and participating in this stagnant misery while being lulled to sleep by B.B.C. features, movies, dramas, blah blah blah.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"boring\">\n        The illusion is no longer seductive.<br>\n        It is boring.\n      <\/div>\n\n      <p>Human beings are strange, inventive, funny, difficult, loving creatures living on an astonishing planet, and this is the best dream the entertainment machine can keep selling us?<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"ending\">\n        Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if you all disappeared so the world could wake up?\n      <\/div>\n\n    <\/article>\n  <\/main>\n\n<\/body>\n<\/html>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop Keeping the World in a Dream Stop Keeping the World in a Dream I\u2019m utterly bored. These stupid depictions in these Chinese dramas, with their cheesy CEO men or boss women trampling on their underlings&#8230; utter foolish illusions. I\u2019m utterly bored. 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