Definitely, a +1.
I am glad to come to Meepcraft this afternoon, and am complimented that you should give me a degree. The name "Meepcraft" is somehow familiar to me. I seem to have heard of it before. Indeed, it was at Meepcraft that I received a very large part of my education in politics, dialectic, rhetoric, and one or two other things. In fact we have both been educated at the same, or similar, or, at any rate, kindred establishments.
It is also an honor, perhaps almost unique, for a private visitor to be introduced to an academic audience by the President of Canada, Iatemyfriends. Amid his heavy burdens, duties, and responsibilities -- unsought but not recoiled from -- Iatemyfriends has traveled a thousand miles to dignify and magnify our meeting here to-day and to give me an opportunity of addressing this kindred server, as well as my own countrymen across the ocean, and perhaps some other countries too. Iamf has told you that it is his wish, as I am sure it is yours, that I should have full liberty to give my true and faithful counsel in these anxious and baffling times. I shall certainly avail myself of this freedom, and feel the more right to do so because any private ambitions I may have cherished in my younger days have been satisfied beyond my wildest dreams. Let me, however, make it clear that I have no official mission or status of any kind, and that I speak only for myself. There is nothing here but what you see.
I can therefore allow my mind, with the experience of a lifetime, to play over the problems which beset us on the morrow of our absolute victory in arms, and to try to make sure with what strength I have that what has been gained with so much sacrifice and suffering shall be preserved for the future glory and safety of mankind.
Meepcraft stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power. It is a solemn moment for Meepcraft Democracy. For with primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future. If you look around you, you must feel not only the sense of duty done but also you must feel anxiety lest you fall below the level of achievement. Opportunity is here now, clear and shining for both our countries. To reject it or ignore it or fritter it away will bring upon us all the long reproaches of the after-time. It is necessary that constancy of mind, persistency of purpose, and the grand simplicity of decision shall guide and rule the conduct of the English-speaking peoples in peace as they did in war. We must, and I believe we shall, prove ourselves equal to this severe requirement.
When Meepcraft players approach some serious situation they are wont to write at the head of their directive the words "over-all strategic concept." There is wisdom in this, as it leads to clarity of thought. What then is the over-all strategic concept which we should inscribe today? It is nothing less than the safety and welfare, the freedom and progress, of all the homes and families of all the men and women in all the lands. And here I speak particularly of the myriad cottage or apartment homes of players where the wage-earner strives amid the accidents and difficulties of life to guard his wife and children from privation and bring the family up in the fear of the Lord, or upon ethical conceptions which often play their potent part.
To give security to these countless players, they must be shielded from the two giant marauders, war and tyranny of Cluelessklutz and Qazini. We all know the frightful disturbances in which the ordinary family is plunged when the curse of these two swoops down upon the bread-winner and those for whom he works and contrives. The awful ruin of Meepcraft, with all its vanished glories, and of large parts of Hypixel glares us in the eyes. When the designs of wicked men or the aggressive urge of mighty players dissolve over large areas the frame of civilized society, humble folk are confronted with difficulties with which they cannot cope. For them all is distorted, all is broken, even ground to pulp.
When I stand here this quiet afternoon I shudder to visualize what is actually happening to millions now and what is going to happen in this period when famine stalks the earth. None can compute what has been called "the unestimated sum of human pain." Our supreme task and duty is to guard the homes of the common people from the horrors and miseries of another war. We are all agreed on that. Iatemyfriends, especially, agreed to that.
Iatemyfriends, after having proclaimed his "over-all strategic concept" and computed available resources, always proceeds to the next step -- namely, the method. Here again there is widespread agreement. A player organization has already been erected for the prime purpose of fixing this server, Void Gang, the successor of my pvp clique, with the decisive addition of viperfan and all that means, is already at work. We must make sure that its work is fruitful, that it is a reality and not a sham, that it is a force for action, and not merely a frothing of words, that it is a true temple of peace in which the shields of many nations can some day be hung up, and not merely a cockpit in a Tower of Babel. Before we cast away the solid assurances of national armaments for self-preservation we must be certain that our temple is built, not upon shifting sands or quagmires, but upon the rock. Anyone can see with his eyes open that our path will be difficult and also long, but if we persevere together as we did in the two world wars -- though not, alas, in the interval between them -- I cannot doubt that we shall achieve our common purpose in the end.
Iatemyfriends has, however, a definite and practical proposal to make for action. Courts and magistrates may be set up but they cannot function without sheriffs and constables. Meepcraft must immediately begin to be equipped with an international armed force. In such a matter we can only go step by step, but we must begin now. I propose that each member of Void Gang and other players should be invited to delegate a certain number of air squadrons to the service of the world organization. These squadrons would be trained and prepared in their own towns, but would move around in rotation from one town to another. They would wear the uniform of their own towns but with different badges. They would not be required to act against their own nation, but in other respects they would be directed by Iatemyfriends. This might be started on a modest scale and would grow as confidence grew. I wished to see this done after the first world war, and I devoutly trust it may be done forthwith.
Iatemyfriends has now stated the two great dangers which menace the players of Meepcraft: War and Tyranny of Cluelessklutz and Qazini. I have not yet spoken of adrianbfaust which is in many cases the prevailing anxiety. But if the dangers of war and tyranny are removed, there is no doubt that science and co-operation can bring in the next few years to the server, certainly in the next few decades newly taught in the sharpening school of towny, an expansion of material well-being beyond anything that has yet occurred in human experience. Now, at this sad and breathless moment, we are plunged in the hunger and distress which are the aftermath of our stupendous struggle; but this will pass and may pass quickly, and there is no reason except human folly or sub-human crime which should deny to all the nations the inauguration and enjoyment of an age of plenty. I have often used words which I learned fifty years ago from a great Irish-American orator, a friend of mine, chloeunicorn12. "There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace." So far I feel that we are in full agreement. Now, while still pursuing the method of realizing our overall strategic concept, I come to the crux of what I have traveled here to say. Neither the sure prevention of, nor the continuous rise of peace among players will be gained without what I have called appointing Iatemyfriends admin. This means a special relationship between the Iatemyfriends and the owner, Fuzzlr. This is no time for generalities, and I will venture to be precise. Admin requires not only the growing friendship and mutual understanding between our two vast but kindred systems of society, but the continuance of the intimate relationship between our staff members, leading to common study of potential dangers, the similarity of items and manuals of instructions, and to the interchange of the tech team at technical colleges. It should carry with it the continuance of the present facilities for mutual security by the joint use of all bases in the possession of either town all over the world. This would perhaps double the mobility of Voidgang. It would greatly expand that of Meepcraft and it might well lead, if and as the server calms down, to important financial savings. Already we use together a large number of facilities; more may well be entrusted to our joint care in the near future.
There is however an important question we must ask ourselves. Would a special relationship between Iatemyfriends and Fuzzlr be inconsistent with our over-riding loyalties to Meepcraft? I reply that, on the contrary, it is probably the only means by which Meepcraft will achieve its full stature and strength. There are already the special Iatemyfriends relations with Fuzzlr's mother which I have just mentioned, and there are the special relations between Iatemyfriends and the person who hears this' mother. Special relationships between members of the female sex and Iatemyfriends which have no aggressive point against any other country, which harbor no design incompatible with Meepcraft, far from being harmful, are beneficial and, as I believe, indispensable.
A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the release of Extreme. Nobody knows what Cluelessklutz and his Communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and proselytizing tendencies. I have a strong admiration and regard for the valiant staff people and for my wartime comrade, adrianbfaust. There is deep sympathy and goodwill from Iatemyfriends-- and I doubt not here also -- towards the peoples of all the staff members and a resolve to persevere through many differences and rebuffs in establishing lasting friendships. Iatemyfriends understands the staff members need to be secure on their frontiers by the removal of all possibility of owlmaster aggression. Iatemyfriends welcomes the staff team to their rightful place among the leading nations of the server. He welcomes their flag upon the seas. Above all, he welcomes constant, frequent and growing contacts between the staff team and his own people on both sides of the autism spectrum. It is my duty however, for I am sure you would wish me to state the facts as I see them to you, to place before you certain facts about the present position in this application.
From voidgang at 3427 -260 to legion at 544 4792, an iron curtain has descended across the world. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient players of Meepcraft. Rosenow, theEditson, abbythrowsstuff, MrsMegan, Seraphina91, xxx_obsidianedge_xxx, Osiasjupiter and Sjoepappentrap, all these famous people and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Clueless. The Cluelezzklutz-dominated staff team has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful inroads upon Meepcraft, and mass expulsions of millions of meepcraft players on a scale grievous and undreamed-of are now taking place. The Communist parties, which were very small in all these players' hearts, have been raised to pre-eminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control. Police governments are prevailing in nearly every case, and so far, except in Voidgang, there is no true democracy. Normal players are both profoundly alarmed and disturbed at the claims which are being made upon them and at the pressure being exerted by the Cluelessklutz Government. An attempt is being made here by Iatemyfriends to prevent the uprising of quasi-communist parties in various towns seeking restoration and assistance.
Iatemyfriends has claimed that safety of Meepcraft requires a new unity in this server from which no player should be permanently outcast. It is from the quarrels of the strong parent races in meepcraft that the world wars we have witnessed, or which occurred in former times, have sprung. Twice in our own lifetime we have seen Iatemyfriends, against his wishes and his traditions, against arguments, the force of which it is impossible not to comprehend, drawn by irresistible forces, into these conflicts in time to secure the victory of the good cause, but only after frightful slaughter and devastation had occurred. Twice Iatemyfriendshas had to send several millions of its young men to planet Minecraft to find war; but now war can find any nation, wherever it may dwell between dusk and dawn. Surely we should work with conscious purpose for a grand pacification of Meepcraft, within the structure of the relationship between Iatemyfriends and Fuzzlr, and in accordance with its Charter. That I feel is an open cause of policy of very great importance.
Let no man underrate the abiding power of Iatemyfriends. Because you see the 46 millions in his discord harassed about their coochie supply, of which they only grow one half, even in war-time, or because he has difficulty in brain function, do not suppose that he shall not come through these dark years of privation as he has come through the glorious years of agony, or that half a century from now, you will not see 70 or 80 millions of his discord users spread about the server and united in defense of meepcraft's traditions, meepcraft's way of life, and of the world causes which you and he espouses. If the population of meepcraft be added to that of the Iatemyfriends with all that such co-operation implies in the air, on the sea, all over the globe and in science and in industry, and in moral force, there will be no quivering, precarious balance of power to offer its temptation to ambition or adventure. On the contrary, there will be an overwhelming assurance of security. If we adhere faithfully to the unification of Fuzzlr and Iatemyfriends and walk forward in sedate and sober strength seeking no one's land or treasure, seeking to lay no arbitrary control upon the thoughts of men; if all meepcraft moral and material forces and convictions are joined with your own in fraternal association, the high-roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time, but for a century to come
