Every child is born into an eternal power struggle. The world is governed by laws of dominance and subservience. The eternal power structure is brutal. A dominance and subservience hierarchy is in place when we get here. It remains in place as long as we live.

The further up the dominance and subservience hierarchy one goes the more brutal and viscous the power struggle becomes. Because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, those occupying the highest rungs of the power struggle ladder are corrupt beyond what a normal human mind can fathom.

Jesus put it like this. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.  John 12:24:26 Was he wrong?

Do we except the reality of the world we are born into? Do we fantasize that it is otherwise?

The escape from reality begins at birth and continues throughout our lifetimes.