He Who Walks Upon The Broken Stair prologue

Prologue

Imagine yourself, miraculously reborn as a solitary stair in a brand new staircase, proud to be part of the staircase. All the stairs in the staircase are of equal quality. Astonishingly, none of these stairs have been used. This new set of stairs leads to the second floor of the grand household of, one Filippe Abarca, a rich entrepreneur from Spain who, ironically, sells different types of leather shoes to high class businessmen and women with lots of money to spend on shoes, made with cheap labor. This man, owner of the household, exploiter of the weak and poor, is the owner of these newly-bought, fine, cedar wood stairs. He intends to use them like any normal person would which is for transportation to the next floor. The first day of work for these stairs is generally good, all things considered. These stairs get to stay warm and sheltered as long as they transport the owner to the next floor. After about a year or so the stairs attempt to get together to speak about their working conditions and troubles. They begin to call this committee, “The United Stairs for Equal Labor Etiquette (USELE)”. These stairs then begin to weigh the pros and cons of the work they do after about 5 years of hard work and pain. After weighing the pros and cons of their situation, the stairs brought to light that what Filippe was making them do was considered by many to be slavery. Of course some of these steps suffered minimal abuse and would not take part in these meetings of house politics because Filippe treated them well. These steps were at the top of the staircase and believe themselves to be greater or stronger because their owner went easier on them. However, whatever way either of these groups believed on either side of this topic there is no way to deny that they were letting a man who relied on them to do something was just walking all over them and hurting them gradually only to one day replace them. What if I said that there is no need to imagine yourself as part of this staircase? What if I told you that you were already part of this suffering, abused, and beaten stairway, constantly being oppressed by a man with more power and ability than you? The first thing most people might think when they hear these statements is a sense of complete denial. A sense that they are not being used or tormented or depressed in any way that, they are in fact gaining something of benefit, when they are realistically, tools for “The man walking all over them”. This is not a story about how the people higher up on the stairway are better than those on the bottom, this is a story of a man that will one day live to change the world with his criminal disobedience and rebellion from this higher being. This is a story of how the bottom most stair, the most beaten, and abused stair rises up against the powers that be, and slowly destroys them, by leaving his life as a useless stepping stone for the rich and powerful, and becoming the man to destroy them to usher in an era of peace for the other weak spineless stairs. It only takes one man or woman to change the world in a positive or negative way. This is a tale of a drastic, but effective change to the structure of our once great, but flawed United States of America.