The Guardians of Freedom - Part 5 (standard:other, 9128 words) [5/7] show all parts
Author: Dan Tana	Added: Aug 27 2011	Views/Reads: 2177/1583	Part vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Teddy puts its first friend to sleep with the story of how it vanquished its own villainous doppelganger

I see that you want me to tell you a story using that peculiar, alien
form of communication which calls itself the English language.  So that 
is how we will create the before-time of this dormancy. 

Now the story begins, on a planet named Earth, at a time when national
societies infest that world, and plague the people who live there with 
their militant, autocratic, provincial ways. 

One very large, very militant nation had recently waged war against a
much smaller, weaker state, overthrowing the government of that 
relatively defenseless country and replacing it with a new one.  
Predictably, that new government turned out to be just as authoritarian 
and despotic as the last, though democratic in nature, because it was 
built upon many of the same basic concepts as the previous regime, 
which made its positions of leadership very attractive to those people 
who want to wield power over others. 

Those power-hungry politicians deceived, flattered, and subtly bribed a
lot of trusting, ignorant, desperate people in order to get elected to 
public office.  Then the leaders of that government used various means 
to influence and manipulate the process of subsequent elections, in 
order to ensure that their political parties would always remain in 
power.  And in the name of national security – which they deliberately 
misconstrued as being synonymous with the security of the people living 
in that nation - they cracked down on personal liberty and dissent, 
abusing the people of that country even worse than the old leaders had. 


Some victims of that tyranny resolved to foment a new revolution, which
they initially intended to replace the current government of their 
country with another one that they imagined would somehow turn out to 
be less tyrannical.  But when they listened to the stories that I have 
told the people of that world, and heard the inspirational music of my 
band Flufftopia, the members of that rebellion came to understand why 
another change in the leadership of their nation would fail to free 
them from the grip of oppression. 

They realized that in any society organized as a country there will be
some people who treat others in an abusive, oppressive manner under the 
excuse that it is necessary to do so for the good of that state. 

Then they came to me and asked for my help in organizing a new kind of
revolution that would free them from the grasp of a monolithic, 
self-serving state, replacing it with a governing organization that 
owes its allegiance only to people - not to any particular bit of land 
or some concept of its own national identity - in which each person is 
held personally responsible for all of its own actions, even when it is 
acting on behalf of that organization. 

In order to achieve that objective I first taught these people that
there is no such thing as a state, really, except within the 
imagination of a person who chooses to believe in that concept.  Even 
the largest, most powerful and rigidly organized state is really 
nothing more than a bunch of individual people who each make their own 
choice to act in certain ways.  So it was not really that state which 
the rebels had to fight and defeat in order to gain their freedom, but 
rather those ideas that led certain people to subjugate and abuse them 
in its name. 

Once they grasped that fact I helped them to see that they were already
free to join the alliance of sovereign individuals that the Goo have 
formed to protect personal liberty and happiness, which in this 
language I refer to as the Sovocratic Alliance.  I explained to them 
that this organization is based upon principles that have no concern 
for any of the discordant ideologies which divide people into 
oppositional tribes, so there is only one such organization in all of 
Existence, which is composed of every single person, everywhere, who 
chooses to live by those principles. 

And when enough of the people living in that region of Earth made that
choice to join the Alliance, and stopped perpetuating the idea of that 
old, troublesome, nation-based social structure, that nation simply 
ceased to exist. 

Of course it wasn't really quite that simple, because we then had to


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