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

On the outside, life in the city during the morning was more or less the same as in old times. Thousands of people flooded the streets each with a different destination. Except, they, the prematurely “sacked” from the glothners and their service, had nothing to fear in terms of redundancy, boredom and other symptoms of our time. Most of them went to the ball fields or to the fitness centres, some painted, others studied but, no matter how long I waited, I never saw any labourer in a flat cap, any employee in a stiff white collar or any businessman in a suit with briefcase tucked underarm.

SOCIAL CLASSES, HIERARCHY, MANNERS AND THE DEFEATED BEAST OF BUREAUCRACY

From a social point of view, the modern perception of the Flowery Nest was that of a lower-class state, that is, the opposite of Waren, the Garden of Lilies, New Göteborg, Soonval in the South and, above all, Norfor. I thought about Aria who, as she said, chose it for its aura of spirituality and its overall attractiveness.

As time passes, I get deeper into their meanings and evaluative beliefs. The class hierarchy here has a purely intellectual and cultural content. The Flowery Nest, for example, hosts very few spiritual leaders, who live there only temporarily. The people there are educated by following the spiritual guidelines and the ideological trends that come from the large centres of the North.

There are also some old graduates of the schools of Norfor living there, truly enthusiastic people and passionate art lovers who might not be great artists themselves but know how to distinguish the good and beautiful elements in an artistic creation. True receivers, they’re capable of even bursting into tears at the sight of a work of art.

We had so few people like this in our era. Here there are infinitely more. Plus, there’s only a handful of the type of people who, lacking any esoterism, simply accumulate knowledge so that they can show it off in corresponding circumstances. These people confuse knowledge with education but are, in actual fact, truly uneducable.

And yet, this majority of cultivated people with this exceptional inner refinement, who would be more than welcomed and highly estimated in our era, in this era simply constitute the relatively lower class and I’ve often heard them being accused of doing nothing. The most mediocre physician or the most humble nurse are considered socially superior than Stefan, Hilda and the rest of the neighbours of the villas, provided that they, too, can "experience" nature and "be moved” by the high art, which I understand to be the case with nearly everyone from the Volkic generation and onwards.

Therefore, concerning the masses, the established social perception of today challenges the correctness of spending decades on studying, concerts and spectacles, courses and lectures, exhibition visits and travels, sports and other recreational activities that leave them no time to do something for their fellow human beings.

And all that is completely unrelated to the service. I remember the first days of my new life in the Molsen institute, which itself was a microcosm of society: an entire, small community with all the characteristics of the current social structure. The office partners were doing their service there. I still remember their leader, a dark-skinned nineteen-year-old boy who bowed to all the patients, the Cives

, that is, who were being hospitalised there, as if they were going to tip him.

The nurses were considered socially superior to their Cives and, of course, to the office partners, the partners whose job was to assist them in keeping records and other general administrative matters. The nurses, therefore, were not doing their service; they were all mature and treated by everyone like priestesses.

Leaving the Molsen institute I became more aware of all the different steps of the current social hierarchy. So here’s how it works: the Lorffes from the Valley of the Roses, all kinds of Ilectors, the “leaders” of the Aidersen Institute and all its branches and, last but not least, the great Maîtres of Norfor are the ones who rule. That’s who the masses have as their idols. All these people, according to today's meritocratic perceptions, now in 3906AD, hold the positions that a thousand years ago were held by the scientists who, in turn, had been chosen by the great men of our era—from CC to D, from 200 to 500 according to their calendar, that is circa 2600-2900 AD)—and who in our own terms were something like the tycoons of America, the Supreme Court Judges, the great politicians, the self-seekers, the generals and the aristocrats. Besides, I had verified for myself that the few existing administrative positions were covered by the partners who were doing their service. And to think that ordinary Cives like Stefan were considered immeasurably superior to them.