What a ruler does is speak with themselves, look into their consciousness, find the path ahead of them, find the words for themselves, and ask what they love in their world. Do they know what the people think? But do the people understand themselves? A ruler and people must know themselves. The people cannot rely too much on other people, as those rulers on the top; must make an effort to change things around them on their own, to stop depending on a ruler to get them out of too much dependency.
The people rebuild everything in the mythical world; when there is a disaster, they get to rebuild cities; after their destruction, people in all occupations use their skills to add to the rebuilding of the land. There have been constant disasters to the point that people have become expert builders and self-starters. It’s the custom for the emperor to assist, not just in administration, but also in the physical skills of getting dirty. A leader of anything has to possess superior talent, they are the best in what they put their minds and hand to, and as such, they are in the lead.
People don’t rely on the central authority. They count on their skills and communities, the building of significant structures in the mythical world is the community’s cooperation. Some Individuals depend on themselves, like the wizards, Aura-Laei-i, philosophers, artists, merchants, scientists, and others; these are loners who build things that require hundreds or thousands of. But they have devices that could do all this, and the small blue men. Yes, the same blue men Cadica saw in her desert world. Everything around them lives, so they are not alone, a community of devices. The viewing stone tablets speak; all things in their abode speak with a human-like voice. These people are, therefore independent of the authorities. They are nations themselves. They might be crazy, but they have wisdom and are great mentors. They might have few disciples, sometimes called the solitary ones, but they speak with everything and see into people’s minds even if it’s not wanted; they know the thought of the sky, oceans, land, animals, and inanimate objects. These people are rare, people don’t like to go near them, and rulers fear them.
In terms of material things, some communities produce everything, all their needs. Is there a need for people, yes, to trade the thoughts of other people interchanging? Again, there is no definition of a good or bad thought, but what doesn’t make people feel good is discarded by people on an individual basis. People of the communities became independent because of the chaos of specific periods. Technological development gave them the ability to produce anything physically. With no limitations of technical communication, thoughts coming in from everywhere in the world and universe were and are cataloged and put into a library of thought. The general population of these communities receives their thoughts on their own; they record them in their thoughts and personal libraries. The extensive community library accepts everything.
Most communities elect a chief well educated and skilled in making things; they, at times, reside over a small number of people, maybe a small community of people with extraordinary abilities. Even in small numbers, they produce all their needs with devices of their minds. They could be a crafting and farming community. They live far away from the reach of the authorities and the cities because they want nothing to do with the opinions of others; they gather for comradeship. Some were marginalized, and others had nothing in common with the people of the cities, towns, and villages. It could be said there was a community for everyone.
The independent spirit of the people was difficult to work with for rulers who wished to control people and places. Most rulers did nothing; the people’s lives were to do what they wanted.
The community of trees, people who grow trees, are called tree farmers; they grow trees everywhere. If they can find any empty place, they will grow trees. They use the trees for paper, but mainly certain plants are used, which means parts of the tree are used. Furniture is one of the uses for mature trees and anything using wood. When one tree is cut down, four are planted in their place. This is not a new concept in the mythical world or our world. In the imaginary world, communities in the thousands are devoted to trees and their development. New tree species are created all the time. Places that weren’t forested before are now with trees again.
Small numbers of people at first built sky dwellings, then as time came to pass, an entire community sprouts from this, as a sapling to a forest, parts of these communities transform into big cities, old places are taken over, people settle, another city grows from this. Dwellings in the form of flying serpents, forests, islands, cubes, spheres, pyramids, and many forms will give people a chance to take to the sky to be independent, and these people build them on the ground are independent, out of observation of the conventional world. Named the plant cities, plants grow in indisciplined natural ways and a particular increasing manner that, once mature, is turned into a dwelling. The interior is scooped like a pumpkin, hollowed out to specified designs, and eventually ready for human occupation. The leftover inner parts produce paper, nets, and cloth; the rest that isn’t used is transformed into refuse as fertilizer. As the exterior is impenetrable, the outer world doesn’t seem to touch it; it fades into colors from its native yellowish-green; people say such a city built out of plants becomes a land of color. As they are (and were) called, the plant dwellers have no essential government; they rarely reside long, and people who have lived there for generations develop clan communities. An elderly matron is a head, similar to the Nathja living in the Seven Green Mountains; the communities are coherently strong, and outsiders come to them through marriage. Lately, people have been moving in to stay.
Large cubical-like structures resembling fallen high-rise buildings extending considerable distances with windows, contained, insular, residing in secrecy. An enclosed community rarely wishes to associate with outsiders, their needs are created and grown in these long, snaking, inching structures, and they only trade with themselves. Nothing much is known about these people; none on the outside wish to learn about them.
For mythical people, independence is a form and teaching of the mind, people who wish to think without people influencing their opinions amid a rigid civilization needing to preserve religious or racial traditions or status, people from their freedoms through breaking the law in secrecy and being free in their thoughts. Laws had faded, and authorities neglected the enforcement of rules, never caring to do such. People are accessible in the arts, and many enter other worlds to be accessible, empty universes, where they create new societies. No matter what kind of society exists in the mythical world, they are free of evangelistically dominating religions, which our world hasn’t been freed from. Hierarchy positions are scorned; people who make things with their hands are more respected, as they are creators, closer to the gods, and their minds reach beyond the reach of ordinary thinking. Domination through opinion, thought, or fashion rarely occurs in the mythical world because none wishes to be dominated.
Robert J. Matsunaga
