Having assented to the initial titillation of eavesdropping, the celebrity could not even plead entrapment. Today, 4 April 2016, California Governor Jerry Brown sets the highest minimum wage in the country of $15 dollars an hour by 2022. However, not that I am pushing for this, but many economists report that by now minimum wage should be $24 dollars an hour if he kept up with inflation. Critics are saying that a $15 an hour minimum wage will cause layoffs, raise rents and prices of food, and make it harder for people who are retired or on public assistance. Yet, the whole programs seem to be staged so that no one really loses. There are cost of living increases for retirement benefits and cities and counties even require that private developers set aside housing units for low-income workers.   We are constantly reassured by the government that overrides the critics that everything is real and will be okay because there is justice in America and if your fall short of your dreams, goals, or budgets, there is a safety net you paid for with your tax dollars that will provide a certain percentage of life the life you used to live, and in the meantime, you can find other options to regain your former lifestyle. While people say they understand what is going on, there is a difference between understanding and actually experiencing a situation on a particular level for so long. There is no one to trust, there are constant intrusions and threats. When all boundaries are erased and up for sale, what is there to prevent the selling of people as products in contemporary America? Like most important social phenomena, it begins in innocent ways.   

The popularity of the tabloid picture over the serious story demonstrated again and again that the public preferred the frivolous against the serious. People seemed to want escapist fantasy, a feeling of person identification with fictitious characters and celebrities, even more than they wanted the truth. This strong overlap does not mean that distinction between reality and unreality is useless or meaningless, but rather, like all important social phenomena, it is complex.   If we have a better idea of how and why unreality is produced, then we may have a better chance of assessing both its influence and the possibility of its containment, if not reversal. With boundary warping there is a deliberate distortion and confusion between traditional realms of reality, for example, between entertainment and news; the general rule is that everything that appears on TV, and every segment of our society, is a branch of entertainment. Reality consists of all those sets of carefully negotiated and evolved distinctions between things that many find convenient for giving order to our World. Reality marks off the boundaries between critical things, events and processes.  However, different cultures do not draw the same boundaries around things, especially those that are critical to everyday life. Unreality is the result of the massive infusion of entertainment into every realm of human affairs to the point that everything threatens to become nothing but a spinoff of its truth.  

Unreality occurs when everything not only becomes a sub-branch of entertainment, but does do in ways that many are not even aware that it has occurred. Under the rubric of entertainment there is an invasion into your life and reality is denied, distorted, and generally kept invisible from the public. People start to think that you are a source of entertainment and the things that happen to you are part of a game because they are hooked on massive dosages of entertainment in order to function. Image engineering has become so popular that human beings are capable of producing any kind of appearance (photo, video, hologram) that you can imagine, constructed electronically and is capable of interacting with any other image. Person engineering is also become popular, and it is like genetically engineering, but with beings that are already living. The general principle is that a specific person can be manufactured or made over to embody any set of personality characteristics determined by market research to be appealing to a significant segment of the population.  The human experience has become so deeply organized around recurrent symbols that they continually have more power over many than actions. Symbols are now so powerful that they are archetypes. For example, the young prince no longer is a person, but he is an ancient fairy tale passed on from generation to generation and is a deep part of the culture that he is embedded into the point he is detached from being a living being, but only seen as a representative.   

The young prince is now simply used in the context of selling products, and it is a process that possess a number of disturbing features which thus qualify for inclusion under Boundary Warping. His World may no longer be as tangible as your, but more symbolic and metaphorical. Instead of being human, he is viewed as a hybrid creature, who possess greater power, ability and intelligence. In effect, he is endowed with the ability to solve human problems. However, even more significantly, all boundaries are inherently unstable. In contrast, the humans are generally portrayed as a product of their environment, helpless, and usually crumble in the face of overwhelming problems. Thus, humans are generally portrayed as both passive and paralyzed by their fears and limitation. Boundary Warping thus plays a prominent role in the Universe in which such beings exist because it is a World you can never completely trust. The World is always on the verge of transforming instantly into something else. Because humans are not responsible enough to be accountable for their actions, there is no stability in existence.  The main goal of unreality is to remove history or ordinary time as we normally experience it so that the public can have the illusion that no matter what happens to you, you will live forever. And figures of authority serve to trigger powerful acts of destruction devoid of any moral or social context whatsoever. Indeed, an apocalypse is often a current theme. One of the most disturbing aspects of unreality, however, is that the psychopath may be more accepted and understood than those who supposedly have a grip on reality, and that is why outlandish things are able to happen to some people and the perpetrators go unpunished. The infrastructure penetration and contamination of the manufacturing of unreality has reached such proportions that it has literally infiltrated itself into virtually every aspect of American life; the phenomenon is thus so deeply and widely entrenched into very lifeblood of American society that its eradication is highly problematic at this point.  American culture stands to become a vast wasteland of programmatic ignorance or unreality creation on the face of the planet. This is why experts tell you to limit the time your kids can watch TV and use social media. Make them read books and play outside. This also goes for adults. TV has rendered traditional causality, traditional sequence of events, irrelevant. Boundary warping can be trivial and frivolous to socially significant and potentially Earthshattering.