I'm appreciating the essays Max, I still hear every word in your voice too :) You're a really talented writer. I tell my kids all of the time, that so-called 'authority' is just human beings in costumes. Nothing more. That they should do what they feel is right, not just because a human in a costume had written some words on paper and called it "law".

I have a lot of hope for Humanity because I know there are many other parents teaching their children the same thing. The future looks bleak if we only see it from the tv and mass media perspective, the future looks amazing when I see how my friends, and people like you are teaching truth and never giving up.