Opening passage for "Human"

Call it the exuberance of youth or high hopes. We go forward into life with a will, little sense, and the highest anticipation. We get clobbered from behind without the slightest realization because of the conditioned blindness, so we try to shrug it off. Some of us do, some of us don't, but it takes a toll on all.
We're told that is just 'maturing'. We are told that the innocence of youth was just a childish dream. (can you feel me beginning to hyperventilate?)
Over and over again, through the millennia, the youth has cried for surcease. "Something is wrong, dammit!" "No, no, child. Life is misery. Just accept that fact." We succumb, once again, to the inertia of history and the past. We are welcomed into the fold of misery with open arms.

Humanity is very, very broken. It need not remain that way.

Opening passage for soon-to-be-released book, "Human"