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

In fact, the exemption of the Cives from any mandatory intermingling with the office partners—similar to our own public servants—or at least the reduction of this contact to the minimum possible was a right that had been definitively won centuries ago by their Universal Commonwealth. And it is actually considered to be one of their most valuable and enviable achievements, something like the securing of civil rights and individual freedoms was for us. Of course, such a right wasn’t won from one day to the next, but gradually, over hundreds of centuries. And it’s a very promising thought that the monster of bureaucracy will one day crumble to the ground, defeated by logic.

The administrative approvals that are required nowadays are very few—mainly of a scientific nature—and are willingly brought ready to the Cives by the partners. This willingness to serve is one of the most fundamental elements of their culture.

The demographic and traffic regulation and control is always done in a certain way and is always communicated directly to the Cives, so that they are aware of it. That is all. There are no violations but, even if there are, the intervention of the partners in individual cases is unjustifiable. For example, Stefan’s linsen is in constant need of tune-ups but he is not required to remember anything or keep records. The partners are the ones whose responsibility it is to keep records of the dates and details and to ask when they can come and get the linsen

and return it fixed without bothering him! In fact, they have even been taught how to stand with respect not only before Stefan, but also any other Civis. And all this respect stems merely from the fact that the latter have fulfilled their “social duty”; their service.

Now, if one focuses only on the Cives, one will realise something else that we didn’t have in our time: the current class distinctions, from the

Lorffes to the rest of the population—the masses, that is—do not stand in the way of all social classes obtaining the same inner cultivation, the same air of “high society”, the same joy of life. And this is something that we never achieved, not even during the French Revolution.

These people have managed to achieve—and I don’t even know how—that the mass be a soulful receiver, have the same courtesy and the same manners as the top intellectuals of Rosernes Dal. And, as they informed me, they all consider themselves descendants of the old working class!

It seems incredible how this class managed to evolve to such extent since that decisive moment in history—over twelve hundred years ago, circa 2600 AD when the technocrats and natural scientists undertook world governance—when the political leadership was abandoned and replaced by the Marie Curies and the Max Plancks of the time. And I remember how surprised I was when Stefan told me that the great ancestors of today’s Ilectors

used to be industrial workers.

For a social observer of our time, a walk through the streets and the gardens of the Flowery Nest would surely be of great value, to see with their own eyes how everyone, without exception, knew how to dress, how to talk, how to enter a group for the first time, how to walk and stand in any given circumstance. It is perhaps surprising that a world so advanced in its inner culture, doesn’t consider this commitment to “good manners” as something superficial, something too formal and conservative, too unworthy a social convention for the “superior people” to engage in. But they argue that something that reflects a real emotional and moral wealth cannot be classified as shallow and superficial.

Seeing them give this tone of joy and happiness to everything they do is truly delightful. You see them socialise with each other and the current perception that has passed from generation to generation from a very young age comes to mind: this guileless and selfless love combined with courtesy and good manners: a true masterpiece!

And I wonder: is it the property of each person individually or is it another admirable achievement of their current upbringing and education? In my opinion, it’s neither of the two on their own, but rather the two combined. This unpretentious finesse and courtesy of theirs, their typical nervousness, their morality and modesty and their complete indifference to cheap humour, to the instinct gaining the upper hand and to following some pre-planned strategy in their everyday social life are not things that come out of the blue or that are earned only through persistent exercise.

The same goes for their salvation from the old ancestral inferiority complexes that used to manifest themselves through selfishness, arrogance and vanity. So many generations before this one had spent their entire life in such an atmosphere of love and true nobility, that it gradually became their own and was transformed into a natural and effortless way of life.