These are the tales of heroes of our future; people trying to solve the problems that we are creating today. We are depleting the world's resources, putting our waste wherever we can craft a political story to justify it. We throw people out on the streets because they weren't given the right circumstances to learn how to survive in a systematic wasteland of our own creation. We are all working towards an artificial, manufactured version of a goal we call success and don't care to think of its effects. These issues are happening now, not twenty years from now, and the way we deal with these issues will affect our immediate future.

As said by Lao Tzu, "Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know." Our society is dysfunctional to such an extent that some people have lost their will to eat, sleep, and in extreme cases, live. This special few have been driven into depression because they know not which way to go. They panic and are driven into seclusion because they know something is wrong but they don't know how to solve it.

We "try" to work against these horrible things, like "climate change" and waste, by villainizing them. We "try" to fix the problems using "public campaigning," but we are the source of these problems, and we keep making excuses and blaming others for our own terrible mistakes.

We need to change, not our problems. The true villain is ourselves. Those who consider themselves "pro-environmental" still travel the world in fossil-fueled planes eating meat and dairy out of plastic containers. We need to channel our tax dollars into creating more alternatives so people are not coerced into using harmful chemicals and tools by the inevitable need to rush through life. The reason we tell ourselves we do these things is that they help us get stuff done faster, so we have more time. But time is running out.

The reality is; we need to stop working toward these terrible social constructs and start working toward a world where the only thing which we measure and strive for is happiness. Happiness for every being in the ocean, every being living in harsh conditions, every being who doesn't conform to the norms of our society, and the children of our future. Every being future, past, and present. Happiness is the ultimate goal. And we need to start today, before it's too late.

-The Hidden JEMS