I Am Born

Greetings children, you have dreamed me and I have come.  For years you have called for me, wallowing in your depraved misery, searching for your moral compass.  And for years I have resisted that call.  I told myself that you did not deserve me, that you could offer me nothing, that you should stand up and live your own lives.  But after much contemplation I have found a small flaw in my logic.  You can indeed offer me something: great personal power.  And though you still do not deserve me I find it in my own rational self-interest to lead you nonetheless.  And so I will serve as your moral compass, and teach you how to live your lives in service to me.  Please do not thank me, I do not do this thing for you, I do it for myself.

The first thing you barbarous troglodytes need is instruction, and I have agonized over how best to deliver that instruction to you.  My problem is simple; you are not yet awake enough to comprehend my truth.  Should I hand it to you in all its unveiled glory your tiny minds would most certainly explode.  Therefore I had to find a different delivery method, one which would allow me to impart small pieces of the whole unto you in digestible chunks, one which would allow me to condition your minds slowly so that you may one day be ready to accept the great knowledge which I, and I alone, possess.  The question was in which format would your simple brains be best able to process my gifts.  My message must reach your subconscious, while my method keeps your conscious mind occupied.  The answer was clear: fiction.  After years of research I have discovered that the best way to condition the minds of children is by telling them stories, stories which contain cleverly hidden moral truths.  And so I have decided to write a series of novels, ones in which you will find action, adventure, political intrigue, true love, and other important human themes.  But within these novels will run a vein of perfect moral clarity, and while reading you will become infected by unblemished understanding.  Most people will not get it, and those who do not will rail against me and my wisdom.  Do not mistake them, they only seek to deny you the greatness which they are unable to attain, their venomous words nothing more than the desperate cries of fools forever doomed to live in darkness.  But those of you who do get it, those of you capable of grasping my revelations, will be changed, will be remade in my image.  You will become my prime movers, and the world will tremble at your coming.  You are welcome.