The Eternal Cycle By William Zinsser Analysis

I wholeheartedly agree with Zinsser's essay; through a series of unfortunate circumstances, individuals of today hopelessly misdirected toward notions of success and wealth, utterly oblivious in their incessant worshipping of hard-line goals, have entirely dispossessed themselves of the holistic perspective concomitant with a more satisfactory existence. It’s quite difficult to identify a machine or its overarching purpose and ultimate destination if focus is fixated exclusively on a single minute function or operation; for that matter, it’s impossible for one to truly see his or her self and its relation to its world without stepping outside of it. Too many individuals today behave like mindless cogs in a machine, performing the same functions unchecked and without conscience until they wear themselves worthless and die, only to be replaced by a newer and more able performer in what amounts to, in only the eyes of the distant onlookers, a cruel and fruitless cycle, comparable to the plight of tantalus’ eternity in the underworld.
Life has always been victim to its own programming; equipped with reward mechanisms for which to know and thus know without; for us to have and then to lose; for us to inescapably enslave ourselves in eternal longing, be it for sex, food, water, or sanctuary. In many ways it could be argued that it is this quest for satisfaction itself that possesses us of the knowledge of suffering, that the will to live is itself suffering. We are our captors, our drivers; we are life, and we are as inescapable as