The Guardians of Freedom - Part 7 (standard:other, 8739 words) [7/7] show all parts
Author: Dan Tana	Added: Jun 14 2012	Views/Reads: 2074/1793	Part vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The Sovocratic Alliance has freed the people of this world from all types of criminal government, but Teddy's mission to protect, educate, and amuse us still continues.

Greetings to all of you.  I am Theodore Fluffington, or Superteddy, as
some of you already know. 

For those of you who do not yet know me, there are a few things that I
will explain about myself.  First of all, I am a living toy who exists 
just to make people happy.  I was built by a race of beings who suspect 
that to be happy is all that any person ever really wants, though many 
people do not realize this about themselves because they do not 
consciously comprehend all of the complex, indirect and sometimes 
counterproductive ways in which that primal motivation manifests 
itself. 

To help me fulfill that purpose for which they created me my
constructors installed devices in my head that make it possible for me 
to see what is in the minds of other people, and also enable me to 
transmit my own thoughts into those minds.  I am using those devices 
right now to communicate directly with every person who lives on this 
planet, to share with all of you the wonderful news that the last 
tyrannical government of your world has at long last been disbanded! 

When I first arrived in this place several years ago I found a world in
which many different gangs of people used various forms of force, 
violence and coercion to take whatever they want from the lives of 
other people, capriciously limiting the freedom of those victims in 
order to please themselves, which is the very essence of that abstract, 
conceptual thing to which I refer using human words like 'crime' and 
'injustice'. 

And also, to my shock and dismay I found that many of the people who
objected in principle to this atrocious state of affairs actually chose 
to support it in certain instances.  Even some of those characters who 
are called superheroes - who have pledged their lives to fight against 
such villainy - refused to protect the victims of this oppression when 
it was perpetrated by certain societal or governmental organizations. 

In scanning the minds of you Earthlings I have discovered many different
reasons why some of you have resisted the abolition of those tribal 
organizations that perpetrate such injurious, iniquitous, 
misery-inducing crimes against people.  Most of you opposed this change 
out of a basic fear of the unfamiliar and unknown, or because you could 
not conceive of any way in which this change could be implemented 
without causing widespread turmoil and chaos, which would make this 
world an even more unpleasant place than it already is. 

Others did so because you derived a psychological gratification and
sense of pride from your patriotic support of one such state, or from 
your veneration of the founders of that state, whose original, personal 
intentions and choices in creating that country you wrongly assumed to 
have some inherent significance or bearing on how people in the present 
should live our lives. 

Some of you had structured much of your ego around the notion that it is
deeply and innately important for people to preserve and participate in 
the cultural traditions of your state or ethnic group, and so you 
initially refused to allow me to teach you to understand the baseless, 
insubstantial nature of such belief.  And you blinded yourselves to all 
of the harm that such beliefs have caused to the people of this world.  
But most of you did eventually find the courage to face this reality, 
and after freeing your minds of such ideologies you joined the Earthly 
branch of the Sovocratic Alliance, which helped to free all the people 
of your world from the ancient tyrannies of those supposedly sovereign 
states. 

Of course it has not been easy to transform the social structures of
this world in such a significant way.  And there has been a lot of 
controversy concerning certain aspects of this transformation, some of 
which still persists. 

Perhaps the most difficult and controversial matter of all is the
question of what exactly makes something a person, which is a most 
essential issue in any society that is based upon the idea of 
individual, personal sovereignty. 

The Goo who created me understand personhood to be that quality which
satisfies a particular equation which I do not know how to translate 


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