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

East Asia was occupied almost exclusively by Slavs, who had come from the north, the descendants of North Americans from the western states and by a medley of Europeans, who could now fit more comfortably in all those fertile valleys, while several millions of Indians lived in the highlands of the centre of the continent and Tibet. In the Mediterranean, the Ottomans had retreated to Lake Van and the Greeks had re-inhabited Asia Minor, since their country as well as the North African coast had been evacuated. The latter was largely resettled, mostly by Italians, as soon as life there was possible again. This is mostly what I remembered and managed to copy from my books.

This was the territorial status quo prevailing in the 23rd century and, in fact, the maintenance of this status quo had been guaranteed at the time—mainly by the white race, which was the big winner of the confrontations—in the ecumenical councils of the federal transnational democracy that had been established, with representatives of both the people and the governments of the member countries.

In fact, I was surprised by the fact that the “civic spirit” of those who served in the armed forces of the now established universal authority was formed by special and long-term educational training. They removed them from their social environment and the environment of their national life at childhood and submitted them to special training in order to consider themselves citizens of the world and have a high level of general education. They handled the new electronic devices of universal legal order excellently and their number was incomparably smaller than the number of the armed forces of prehistory though their term of office was much longer. So it was only natural that there were more young scientists and technicians rather than officers and soldiers.

They were also aware that they wouldn’t be forced to use their invincible firepower, on which they had the monopoly, and was only valuable as a kind of guarantee. Nevertheless, they had blind faith in the universal congress and, were taught at birth to forget their ethnic origin and consciously obey the dictates of the two Parliaments and the executive authorities of the federation.

A similar sense of responsibility to humanity also suffused both the military and the members of the collective Executive office and the double parliament (the former elected by the people and the latter appointed by the governments). They all considered themselves devoted to the service of unity. I remember them being called “diplomatic agents of unity” and always “at the service of humanity”. Only secondarily did they consider themselves envoys of the people who had elected or appointed them. A type of the local leader still exists, but possesses limited powers because now international law has prevailed over domestic law.

The institution of “unified citizenship” had already been introduced to all by the Anglo-Saxons Verchin and Milstone by the 22nd century. The shaping, however, of a common national consciousness was not directly obtained and in line with the ever more refined version of federal institutions. On the contrary, this formation took centuries and it was an extremely slow psychological process. Much later, after the first two centuries of the Eldere

, a new “universal sense of ethnicity” began to mould. People began to realise that they were members of a single, universal, national and political community. Although historical memories had not, of course, died out, as I was told, more universal ideals started taking shape. “This is our country,” said the representatives of the new generation, looking up at the sky of our blue planet!

At the end of the second century of their chronology—two hundred years or so after the time of John Terring—was the time that politicians had been freed from government responsibilities and replaced by the great technicians and other leading figures in natural sciences, who were now responsible for handling political power in the world over. The new leaders then introduced something that had started a long time ago: the establishment of a global federation of labour organisations—in the form of a political institution and not that of a trade union any more—and, following completely legal procedures, they turned these new cooperative collectives into the basis of economic life on earth. They were also the basis even of political life, I might add, if you consider that people had to participate in the glothners (their industrial units), registering for long-term occupation there, in order to obtain the right to vote. In those times, law and order had prevailed conclusively and convincingly. There was no longer fear of a separatist revival.