How Skilled Are We NOW?!

This is a blog from my dear friend Seth Howell, addressing his concerns with today's world.

"Calm Seas Never Made A Skilled Sailor."

"How Skilled Are We Now?

No matter where you turn, it's nothing but the roughest seas in history. We still have the staples; More war than ever, unemployment is at a worldwide high, poverty, starvation, slavery, abuse, and imprisonment all nearly record highs. But it gets worse. Our souls are beyond corrupted. They're rotting from the core. Rape goes excused and unpunished, nearly acceptable at this point, or so the courts and judges would have you believe. Sex slavery and human trafficking became the #1 crime in the world in 2010 and hasn't been passed since. Almost 30 million people are held in this sort of predicament worldwide! Know what that means? The means that more slaves exist now than in any other point in history. More slaves than the world population in ancient Egyptian times. More slaves in the last decade than in the 300 years that trans-Atlantic slave trading was legal! But that is only indirectly why I'm writing. 
I'm taking the time to pen(write) this for one reason and that's to exemplify how lost we are, and with all that is wrong with this place, and we simply stand by, watching like it's a reality t.v. show. There are precious few who stand against it, they live and die with honor that is far far lost today. I see this generation. My generation being forced to deal with this brokenness, and I see us failing. The state this world is in may have largely not been our fault, but it is our responsibility not to perpetuate this sickness. This generation is the last chance this world has. It's the turning point. There will be several generations after us, but we determine whether they fight and struggle and eventually perish, or whether they grow and prosper. US. We are the last hope, and that honestly scares the living f**k out of me. There's no other way to put it, this generation is disgraceful for so many reason and I'm ashamed to say I'm part of it. 

SO WHY AREN'T WE BETTER??
That's a good question...
Some say 'you're only as good as your teacher'. Which falls apart fast for obvious reasons (innovation for thousands of years), but I think it's a wake principle. For example, when a large boat moves through the water, it has to work hard to power through the water. It has to disrupt the current in order to push where it wants to go. However, in its wake it's very easy to glide through the water, it's nearly effortless. On the flip-side of that, it takes great effort to break free of that wake. Any change in direction is met with even more resistance than the large boat met in order to create the wake in the first place. See the problem is, the large boat is heading for a rocky shore and has been for a while. I think it's time we finally break free of this wake before everyone suffers.
We have been sailing the roughest of seas for a while now and I know we have the skills to fair out into uncharted waters. I'm sick of excuses and I know I will be better for my grand-children's children, because they deserve the paradise I'm working to build."

-We can surpass the rest, if we only try... 

Transcribed by Mordecai