McKenna+S’s+2015+OpEd+Article

= = We are at a disadvantage. We are born gentle; we are born virtuous; we are born good. The world is brutal. The world is evil. It is bad. The millennia before us has putrefied in the muck of their own success-- and we are all raised to know no better. Failure is not an option in this day and age… and how can this be? We are held up against the unknown, guaranteed a life of nothing, if we dare refrain from the perpetual rat races of lust for an unidentifiable “better future”. How will we ever have a better future if we continue to act as if we don’t already live in it? We will step on each other, smash in one anothers skulls and dreams, to achieve success- to satiate our own personal desires to be a “good” or “hard-working”. Why is pleasing the very people who made the Earth the way it is our main goal? To prove them wrong, you say? Why do we continue to follow in their footsteps? The day we were born- into those gentle, virtuous, and good people, we were born at a disadvantage. In the most crucial stage of our life, the very people who care about us put us in a boat and set us out into the eye of the storm- gloating and showing off to other people how the waves seem to be favoring their child… but they’re too far away to see that our boats have been overturned and we are drowning. There are only so many of us who will make it out alive- only some of us will taste that sweet //success//. Waves will consume the rest. As we are swimming to safety, few will hesitated to sacrifice friends to the sharks. Swim or sink. Eat or be eaten. The world is brutal. The world is evil. It is bad. We need to to stop pursuing the over farmed and desolate lands that are left for us to kill one another over. We need to break away from the ties of that timeless machine, of degenerate and failing ways, so we can once again restore the Earth to how it bore us:  Gentle. Virtuous. Good. Significant.