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The first winner of Survivor spent fifty-one months in federal prison for asking the IRS a question.
That is where this book begins. It does not end there.
Reality Matters is Richard Hatch's reckoning with the single most important question available to a human being: what is actually true? — and with the institutions, systems, and comfortable stories that have spent centuries making that question as difficult as possible to ask honestly.
Drawing on six decades of paying close attention — to a Catholic childhood in Rhode Island, to the death of his thirteen-year-old brother on a sidewalk, to winning Survivor in front of fifty million people, to strip searches and leg irons and a concrete cell with an eight-inch window, to a twenty-five-year legal battle that is still unfolding, to direct personal encounters with Donald Trump — Hatch builds a sustained, unsettling, and ultimately generous argument about why most of us are living at the surface of our own lives, and what it would cost and give to go deeper.
This is not a Survivor memoir. It is not a prison memoir. It is not a political polemic, though it does not flinch from politics.
It is a book about the gap between what we are shown and what is actually so — in religion, in the legal system, in the algorithm, in the supplement commercial, in the orange face of the President — and about the specific, irreplaceable satisfaction available to anyone willing to close that gap in their own life.
Reality Matters will make you uncomfortable. It will make you laugh. It will make you look at things you have been carefully not looking at.
That is exactly what it is trying to do.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. What if everything you were taught was built on ground that isn't there?Most of what you believe, you were handed as a child - by people who never looked down to see whether the ground beneath their certainty was actually there. Reality Matters is an invitation, and a provocation, to look down now.In this unflinching book, Richard Hatch turns a single ruthless question on the things we are taught never to question - our bodies, our gods, our governments, our deaths. Not does this feel true? but is it actually true? What follows is not comfortable. It was never meant to be. Comfort, he argues, is precisely what our institutions sell us in place of what is real.You may know Richard Hatch as the original winner of Survivor - the man tens of millions watched win the first season of the show that reshaped television. What they don't know is the man who wrote this book: someone whose most meaningful work has taken place far from any camera, forged over two decades of paying a specific, personal price for the simple act of living honestly. He writes not from the safety of theory but from hard-won experience, with the same clear-eyed attention to what is actually there that once made him impossible to beat.This is not a demolition. On the other side of the discomfort is something those institutions are built to obscure, and something we are conditioned to avoid: ourselves, accurately seen.That is not a small thing. That is, in fact, everything. In Reality Matters, Survivor's first winner turns a ruthless question-is it actually true?-on our bodies, gods, governments, and deaths. Uncomfortable and honest, it is an invitation to see yourself and what you were taught accurately. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798995775621
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