Seven giants once gathered together and created something wonderful - a huge sandbox where it was possible to play endlessly and build anything one wanted. Into the sandbox they imagined glitchen and set them free to play however they pleased. "Do whatever you like," they said. "Only do not harm one another. All may play and none may command others."
The glitchen rejoiced and played. For a time they simply ran through the sand from one part of the sandbox to another; the sun and sand were enough to keep them happy. Then one glitchen thought, "I will build something - a castle!" He went off into a far corner of the sandbox and began to build an elaborate castle of sand. Others came to help and the castle rose, tall and beautiful.
Another glitchen thought, "I will make sculptures from the sand," and soon a group had created a sculpture garden filled with lovely statues. Still another glitchen found some pebbles and, feeling contemplative, smoothed the sand and placed the pebbles into intricate patterns that led him down winding paths of inner peace.
The giants saw how the glitchen were creating beauty in the sandbox and they were happy.
Then other glitchen saw what these had made and said, "You have no right to dictate what will be in the sandbox. The giants imagined us free to do whatever we want throughout the sandbox and you are limiting our freedom." They kicked down the sand castle, stomped all the sculptures into nothingness and stirred the swirling pebbles of meditation into a meaningless jumble. They laughed and exulted in their freedom as they ran throughout the desolate wasteland of sand.
The giants wept.