The document is a rant about the state of modern society and the need for change. It argues that society has fallen into insanity, with right and wrong indistinguishable and idiocy running rampant. People continue accelerating despite society's torment and have replaced stopping to think with laughter. The author calls for taking one's foot off the gas, disconnecting from technology, and focusing on the tools and ground beneath our feet in order to curb this insanity and build a better future for children. Though there are many problems, the author believes that by all believing we can make a difference and working together, a better future is still within reach.

1. Necessary Ranting
I am alive, empowered, ready to scream
I am angry, fist clenched, bleeding
It is time for some necessary ranting
Has the world fallen into insanity?
The very concepts of right and wrong are all but indistinguishable
Their very identities lost to obscurity
All that’s rational seems complicated
And idiocy runs rampant
Society spins ready to vomit
Yet we continue to push faster despite its torment
The words “stop”, “think”, replaced with laughter
And yet we stand bewildered in the site of disaster
Nobody was listening, nobody E-mailed me, are the excuses they bring
Lord help them if they would assume any responsibility
Do they not realize it’s everyone’s duty to stop this insanity?
Take your foot off the gas
Come back from cyberspace
Put down the phone and look hard at what our lack of attention has made
Our children can’t find their own state, yet they graduate
They scarcely know the tools of their trade
What future shall they create?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not preaching, I am only reasoning
You cannot build a better world if you don’t know the tools to which you’re looking
Let alone, how do you begin when the ground you’re on is so shaky?
Our very society shakes and convulses with insecurity
Understanding replaced with litigating
Simple talking replaced with shouting
Greed in control of everything
Everybody seems denied something,
Now consumed with the “you have it, I want it!” mentality
It’s not fair, you’re mistreating me, in neon illuminating all that we see
Nobody realizing nothing was promised us
The only thing we were given is the earth beneath our feet
And not even that is a total guarantee
Regretfully I must admit that at times I think we have stopped earning that luxury

2. I wish I knew what to do
Some way of curbing this insanity
But there is only so long I can keep up my screaming
It is up to all of us to begin reasoning,
Realizing that we all strive for the same things
And that for God sakes there is a common ground beneath our feet
It lies in the hope for our offspring,
Doesn’t that account for something?
Sure we’re all different; we’re all unique,
But that in itself makes us more alike if anything,
Wherein for every difference, there is a similarity.
But those are only a few of the problems we’re facing
There are so many I don’t want to continue naming
Lest we run the risk of our hope dwindling
And we don’t need that happening
Our worlds mending is going to take us all believing
Believing that the difference we make is empowering, life changing
And that despite the distance the better life and future is still within our reach
It may not be today, but with work, who knows what the future shall bring?
Wunschel
4/8/03