A FAIRY TALE – An Introduction and A Beginning

Gather around children. I am going to tell you our history. How we came to be here, what happened, and why it is so important to learn these things. This story will be told as a sort of fairy tale, a collections of myths. And, like all myths, there are hidden truths. Truths to be discovered and learned and, perhaps, truths that will make our future as bright as it was once long ago.

Like all fairy tales I must begin with...

Once upon a time. A time long, long, ago. A time when we lived and danced and sang our songs of truth and love. A time when, after so many years of turmoil, our greatest of grandfathers had brought about a great and wonderful life for most of our people.

There were still, in those days, brothers and sisters that were in want and for who life was difficult. But, it was also a time when these trials were being addressed and gradual progress was being made to assist those in need.

A time so long ago that many have forgotten all except the most foggy of memories of those days and that place. That place that our grandfathers and grandmothers had grown on over decades and even centuries to become a once great people. Had grown from almost animal like beings to what we even are today. But it was a time so long ago that only our eldest recall it. Most of you are so young that you only know of it as tales and stories told to you at bedtime to help you fall into a quiet and restful sleep unbothered by need or fear.

But it was a place where, without regard to its greatness, there were those who sought fame and power and wealth beyond their individual needs and tried to mold our world into something that fit their ideas and yet always was intended to only increase their fame and power and wealth at the cost of our very existence.

Those few were able to persuade many that their ways and ideas were the path to follow instead of the path we had set out on so many decades before and that the old ways were wrong thought and must be changed to fit their ways and ideas even though it eventually led to a world consumed with hate and fear.

A world that, while memories of its old greatness began to drift back into a dusty memory, became a place where those that numbered in the few were cast as evil and that they must be overcome by those who numbered in the many.

Only later did we all learn that it was only a few that, with their great power, were able to influence crowds to do unthinkable things to what were actually the many but diverse elements of our community.

Diverse in such ways that they were not able to join together as a single and more powerful group that could have overcome the influence of those few and very powerful ones who sought only to increase their power.

Those few with great power and wealth sought only to change our world into something it could never be because they were actually a minority who sought to destroy that and those who did not fit their very narrow and evil view. And, in doing so, brought about changes in our people and our world that could not be reversed. Changes that saw great and unspeakable things done to so many of our people, a people who only wanted to share in the dream that once was great among us.

Changes that brought about the Great Burning and led us to this place and these times when we are a community scattered across the universe with some of us trying to recover those times when we had love and compassion for one another.

But now my children, it is time for rest and sleep. Tomorrow we shall continue our history. Tomorrow we shall begin at the beginning.