A statement on the growing inequality among sea life and their socioeconomic classes

by a slightly oversized chimerafish

We stand today at a crossroads to which we cannot later return. The state of the ocean at the moment is something we cannot ignore, despite the ruling fish telling us so. For decades the raging arctic war between the Pacific Ocean and its spheres of influence, and the Eastern Atlantic bloc has made us think of the stark difference between the hadal and abyssal marine classes and the epipalagics as a game of solutions rather than what it truly is; a cast line which not only keeps us in struggle, but furthermore manages to distract us from the issue at hand, which is that fewer and fewer epipalagics are controlling more and more coastal zones. Simply put, as long as the epipalagics have us grasping at their hooks and bait, we will not see that it is ultimately their fault we are subdued to the hadal and abyssal zones.

It is upon accepting this state of affairs as truth that we begin to see the crossroads form through the fog. We can stay in the right lane, continuing to mindlessly bite at the hooks of the epipalagics in the (continuously less commonly realised) hope to be brought up to be their equal, or we turn left. We turn a sharp, almost full left turn and we see the situation for what it is; we see that our ocean is torn apart not by the continued rapids of the arctic war which should be over, but rather by the fact that it is allowed and supported by the epipalagics that we hadal and abyssal dwellers are below them, lesser than them. If we do not turn left now, at this crossroads, perhaps the epipalagics will have torn the oceans to the point the epipalagics do not simply control us  hadals and abyssals, but enslave us. 

Something fishy is afoot, and yet we let those in charge of it keep us distracted with telefishion and hookers. 

Please, do not simply swim past the crossroads.