Chronicles From The Future: The amazing story of Paul Amadeus Dienach

If to all that you add the “automation of work” in the new, large industries, which deprived people of time for reflection and moral self-control in the course of their life—something vital for the people of this era—one can understand the poverty of inner life and self, which was one of the main features of the 20thcentury, along with the stressful pace of life and the many manifestations of the "aggressive struggle for survival,” as they call it today.

The prevalence of a type of realism, according to which technical progress is not the means to an end but the end itself, was the main culprit for the crisis of intellect and spirit. That’s why a new Middle Ages made its appearance in Europe and everywhere else in the world, without anyone realising how or why this happened. They said it was as if it came out the light of the “televisions”, out of this blizzard of white light and images…

The democratic ideals were replaced by the “competition of autocracies”. The main concern of the entire 20th century was whether the totalitarian institutions should be of right or left-wing ideology. And many conflicts were generated for this reason.

There also occurred several clashes, decades later, when the uncontrollable overpopulation led both the peoples and their unworthy ruling classes to complete deadlock. And when it finally became clear that the necessary preventive measures for monitoring the demographic indicator had been delayed too much, the good old ethical and political demands for “individual freedoms” and for “civil and human rights” collapsed even more to the point where nobody even thought of them anymore.

The Middle Ages had come creeping on the sly. In disguise, they made their way into society through blithe and cheery dances, illuminated boulevards… It was the materialistic century, an era of zero sensitivity, zero concern for human values and zero noble feelings. It was an era of unilateral technological progress without the necessary moral maturity of man.

Everybody was only interested in themselves. Love, straightforwardness, mercy and forgiveness were all swept aside. Within a hard and wildly competitive environment, the value or indifference to the means used by someone for the purpose of attaining wealth was judged based solely on results and effectiveness! The hesitations of conscience were considered as “lack of common sense”! What prevailed was the thirst for power and domination and the smothering of every reaction or emotion that arose by any means possible.

Young people, who were then lacking even the basic moral values, said that “they didn’t believe in anything” and, of course, the ones who were to blame were the adults, who had left them alone, without a guide, to “find their own way.”

At the same time came what was later to be called “the worthlessness of idols”, meaning the observation that, in all parts of the world, young people had started admiring “idols”—actors and mimes, boxers, footballers, scruffy, longhaired musicians, courtesans and heartless tycoons—instead of true heroes!

As a result of the lack of faith in at least some ideals, people lost their inner balance. The fall of ideals left a terrible void. People suddenly became incapable of approaching a superior view of life and the world, a deeper interpretation. The world of religion collapsed. A number of physicists argued that the scientific knowledge had come to replace the “naïve faith” in good!

But too much faith in the omnipotence of science did not solve any of the problems humanity was facing, or at least those members of humanity that deserved to be called humans, said Lain. In short, they said that problems didn’t actually exist and that questions were posed in vain since there were no answers. “Things are what they are” was their motto. In their view, life was an irrational flow of sequential events, a completely random biological evolutionary process without purpose, direction or reason.

And there came times when this disappearance of all faith and metaphysical havens, combined with the exhausting rhythm of life of the human-robot, resulted in the appearance of distressing mental side effects on a grand scale: severe neuropsychiatric disorders and extensive suicides and then a stage of nihilistic self-abandonment prevailed for many years. 8-V

“Nowadays we teach the incidents of prehistory not only for informational purposes but also as a means of exemplification and kind of intimidation,” Lain said. So in teaching and on the Reigen-Swage, the unwinding of historical facts and events also has an educational mission. Everything is exposed objectively, as it really happened, and students are called to draw their own conclusions.