The Modern Odessey

Life is like the whirlpools we learned about in school. I remember my eyes being wide as we heard how Charybdis sucked up Odysseus and his crew. I was intrigued by anything adventurous at that point. Columbus, Marco Polo, Tarzan, Mowgli... I wanted to go on adventures, travel the world, fight for honor and love and respect. Unfortunately, that was well before my time. The Greeks homoerotic, "anything goes" society was crushed under the muddy boots of the Christians. The explorers that fascinated me as a child were exposed as racist, sexist, greedy assholes when I was in seventh grade. Those books I'd read were all written by racists as propaganda to support the unwanted entry and "cleansing" of lands like India and Africa in the name of Christ. Everything I've learned in school is now crumbling and dirty, and I feel like all my childhood dreams are drowning.