A Modern Day Tale

My wife, an indigenous person of the Mi'q Mah people which is
part of the Abenaki (loosely translated "the people of the dawn"
nation wrote the following....

A Modern Day Tale

Once upon a time there lived a very silly group of people named the Repuddlekins. They thought they knew everything. They thought they had the whole scene covered. Some had cognitive deficits, although they didn’t know this, and even had difficulty getting through their day. Some had a really big drinking problem. Some took bad pills.

Their ancestors had invaded the land, stolen it from its friendly inhabitants who had welcomed them warmly and kept them alive. They were an ungrateful people and thanked the kind natives by killing them off. “We had to! They were in our way!” they shouted. And that made everything right. To them, anyway. They replicated and replicated until they covered the whole land. They built many square things. They spread disease and in general, made a very big mess.

It is now thought they came from a different planet. No-one knows for sure.

They were a critical folk and did not like anyone who looked, or thought, differently than they did. They thought they were better than any other people on the earth, although God had made many peoples and loved them all. They made a big show of going in square houses to “worship” God and yet, did not seem to get what He said at all. This was very sad indeed. It made other people think that God was not nice and did not care about them.

It came to pass that the poor people in the country got poorer, and there were more of them. The rich people – many of them Repuddlekins – kept getting richer. They thought everything was just fine. And indeed it was, in their world.

Most of the people in the land who worked hard became very poor. They were called Peasants. They were so poor, in fact, that they could no longer afford health care. Some died outright. Still others became sick and unable to work; some died away slower. However, many somehow remained healthy enough to work. They began to look around and noticed their friends and families having a hard time. They became angry. The Peasants started making noise.

The Repuddlekins, who were having a good time, got annoyed with the Peasants. They found their clamor irritating and said that the Peasants were complaining about nothing. The Repuddlekins got so angry that they started making up lies and yelling them loudly. They even put some of their people on TV to try and brainwash the people in the land. Sometimes they even contradicted themselves and made no sense at all. They had a lot of money to persuade people with.

Unfortunately, because the Peasants were getting poorer, they sometimes could not get food they needed for their families. Many lost their square things and had no place safe to live. It was a very hard time for the Peasants. They tried hard to reason with the Repuddlekins and other people in the land, especially the important people they had hired to speak for them in the Great Square Buildings on the Hill. Some tried to help but were soon drowned out by the yelling people who lied and their money.

What will we do? The Peasants queried amongst themselves. We do not want to leave this pretty place. But we cannot afford to live here. Our children are going hungry! They will get cold and wet out in the rain and no-one can afford to make them well. Whatever can we do?

One day the Repuddlekins were very surprised. They woke up in the morning to a very strange sight. Nothing was moving! How could this be?

No truck drivers. No garbage people. No buses. No-one in restaurants to serve them food. No maids, no butlers, no nannies. As the puzzled Repuddlekins wandered out of their homes into the quiet day, they discovered other odd things. There were hospitals but no nurses to care for the patients. Some of the doctors were gone! The patients were complaining loudly – even those with “good” health insurance.

The schools were closed. There were no teachers to work in them. There were no police, no firefighters, no-one to run ambulances.

The stores were all empty. There was no-one to run them! And no electricity because no Peasants were there to run the power plants. Where did they all go?

The Repuddlekins began to panic. “What will we do? This is horrible! What ungrateful Peasants, after all we have done for them! Who will wait on us now? Who will make our country work? Everything has stopped!”

And they couldn’t get away, because no-one was left to bring them gas. They were most befuddled. Eventually, with no food, running water or services – and no health care left to afford, the poor Repuddlekins withered away and died. Just like the dinosaurs before them. They never knew why.

Hope you all enjoyed this as much as I did! :hi: