In the beginning, there was Law;
and the Law was stark and barren across the void.
Then arose a Law-giver, to codify the Laws that good people must keep.
and the good people were flummoxed, since they were already doing the best they could.
Given their very limited economic means ...
time passed, more and more people were branded as not so good;
So arose the need for Law-enforcers, to punish the people for not keeping the many Laws.
Scoff-laws and Law-breakers grew in numbers in response.
The keeping of Laws became an undue burden for a free people to endure.
and the Laws grew harsher and more restrictive across the land.
Chapter Two)
After a while, the Law-keepers adopted their own codes of morality -- outside of the Law;
Break their code, and be cast as beneath them, as "the liberal ones" unworthy of civil discussion.
The Law-keepers were pleased with their own self-righteousness.
and the Laws grew even more personal and more two-sided across the land.
For those who could afford it, living above the Law-enforcers became the norm.
For those who could not, life was dreary and oppressive, a ceaseless series of hard struggles to survive.
The Lawgivers chose to turn their backs on the poor reprobates;
Their economic poverty was recast in terms of character flaws in need of better morality, and not better Laws, to keep balanced the fair wages of life.
The Lawgivers chose not to see how they themselves were living off the sweat of others.
and the Lawgivers became very full of their own ineffectiveness, and they were quite pleased at their fullness, thereof.
Chapter Three)
time upon time passed,
In the end ... disillusionment with Governing artifacts grew commonplace among the wrung-out and over-wrought workers.
The jobs of the Laws-enforcers and the Morality Police became too all-encompassing for mere humans to monitor and enforce effectively, as they told themselves they once had;
And so new automated methods of crime-detection were created and foisted upon the
scoffing people, with little fanfare or serious thought as to the consequences to follow.
Afterall it was reasoned that Laws MUST be kept, as the Lawgivers have meant it, from the beginning of the metering of Justice. So it was then, and so it will still be.
Without the giving, keeping, and enforcing of the Law, how will a free people ever have a chance to be good? Without the watchers watching, and making it so?
The Lawgivers have spoken. Even at times, with words and determinations that few are allowed to read.
And the Law's reach was starkly complete and invasive across the creative space of the land;
that virtual community the good people saw fit to create, in their symbiotic wisdom, to keep the Lawgivers in check. And by-pass them entirely as their good efforts saw fit.
And so the battle-lines were drawn and set ... as the Light stood perplex at the vortex's edges, afraid to speak out for actual Justice, for fear of tumbling into the harsh legal void.
Epilogue)
And so it is; and so it will be; until the Lawgivers can finally see that they too are human and fallible;
and by rights, should be subject to the same Laws they expect others to just fall in line with, and roboticly keep. Those without the means not to avoid the Law's double-sided reach, that is.
Those not like them, the givers of Laws.