“Do you think this was always the ultimimate reality?”

“What are you saying?”

“Is it true that the world was always going to turn out this way?”

“I guess. I mean, that’s what they teach. When have they ever been wrong?”

“Many, many times. You’ve seen it, human leaders are imperfect, and could be at fault at any given time.”

“The ones you speak of live in the past, when everyone was subject to their selfishness and gullible to their idle promises.”

“But what makes them different to our government now? They could be lying when they say we’ve lost hope, that the world has been destroyed beyond the point of restoration. How could we possibly know that’s true?”

“Back then, lying served a purpose. It benefited them, fulfilled their selfish desires at the time, they lied because they could. They could afford to neglect the survival of half the world, to lable it as a future problem. Look around now. Decease and decay is all you see, it’s your all your future layed right in front of you wherever you go. What good would lying be now?”

“It is wrong to hope things could still change?”

“Yes. People who hope die unsatisfied. Our dismay is the only thing we’re sure of, don’t ruin it with the allusion of hope.”

“Why teach us to survive then? If not to build a better future, for what purpose do we need to exist at all?”

“I’m not so sure. I have a feeling it had to do with leaving our pathetic lives with some dignity. Death is incomprehensible to most people, so living a little bit longer gives us time to make peace with it. They leave it up to us to realise death has become the only salution, and accomodate those who are in denile until then.”

“I can’t find it in me to accept it.”

“You will, better sooner than later.”

“Have you?”