The Reformed Bureaucrat

I am at a harbour. There are groups of people in the sea and groups of
people on the harbour wall.


There is this black man with a stunts bike doing experimental stunts
by skidding close to the edge. He is a slave but he is learning to
become free. The people in the sea swimming are all slaves. They
admire the one on the stunt bike and are trying to be like him.

One of the bureaucrats who created the slave system has got stuck
climbing the harbour wall of the harbour and can't get out. He is a
big fat white guy and has never learnt how to climb holding onto the
thin ledges and bits of chain hanging off the wall. What got him there
in the first place was that he has had a change of heart and wants to
do something for the slaves to get them into a better place but he
doesn't quite know how to open up his heart and tell them.

He realises that he needs the slaves help if he is going to get free
of the harbour wall. He makes a speech to the slaves.

"I have come to realise some important things. I hate the harbour of
work, it is a bad place to work and I hate the way you have been
treated. I want to make this place a better place for you to work so
you can all be free like the chap with the stunts bike. I am going to
make changes round here!"

The slaves all cheer and help him now to climb out of the harbour.

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I am in a walled garden doing some digging. It is very easy to work
the soil, it is so fertile and rich. I am with a few friends and we
realise we have landed on a gold mine.

I find some old photos of the garden. Rich used to work here, and he
has left lots of photos of how it once was.

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