Liar's Shadow

"Authority is now the seat for those willing to sink the low enough take it by force. Honesty, that which is true, is a myth. We all believe and tell those very lies which we believe.
Could I have settled? Lived an "honest life"? I'm not sure that what I would be doing would have been considered living.
I could have climbed out of the mud at any time. But I was born to roll in it. I knew my place and its cost."