The Farther One Travels

The little boy became legally of age.
He had been under the tutelege of so many,
And now, he decided to break out on his own.
So quiet, so unassuming.
He felt that he needed to break out of his shell,
To broaden his horizons,
And so he became a world traveler. Jet setter.
What the little boy saw truly shocked him.
People eating other people and their own children.
Dire poverty, "dirt doggers,"
The most unbearable kind of filth
That is mass produced by the media.
He realized that he was, at that point, a man.

A wise man came to him in a dream
And explained to the sophomore
A grand piece of advice:
"The farther one travels,
The farther one really waves goodbye to home,
The less one really knows,
The less one really cares about his fellow man
And, most importantly, himself."