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Chronicles From The Future is purported to be the real life diary of Paul Amadeus Dienach, a man who lived in Europe in the early part of the 20th century. Dienach suffered from a medical condition which let him in a comatose state for roughly one year. During that time, he believes that his consciousness was transferred into a man by the name of Andreas Northampton, in the year of 3906. Upon his "return" to 1920s Europe, he began to write down all that he experienced during his year in the future. We are told that the diary was not written to be published. It was purely for personal reasons. Dienach supposedly gave the writings to a student in order to practice German. It passed through other hands, including being confiscated by the Nazis during WWII.

For me, this was a tale of two books. The story of Dienach's venture into the future begins with beautiful depictions of how humanity has developed spiritually. Dienach wrote in beautiful and flattering language about his experiences. I found myself underlining so many inspirational passages, that even though I don't believe in the authenticity of this document, I still found valuable nuggets within its words:

"... one’s involvement in science is not a professional need that justifies mediocrity for the sake of one making a living. Our universal socio-political community needs high quality rather than quantity. It all comes down to this: either you say something actually worth saying or say nothing at all!”


"Material superiority is unknown to the contemporary ruling class and so is any type of power over others."


"This thirst of spirit and soul for a godlike destination and proof of our superhuman origins is what makes us idealise and beautify thousands of aspects of our everyday life in this poor earthly environment: virtue, forgiveness, friendship, humanism, youth, beauty, justice, happiness, freedom, affection."


However, the middle portion of the book focuses on the retelling of the course of human history, from Dienach's 20th century up until the present year of 3906. The entire tone of the book changes considerably and, in my opinion, isn't the same voice that had been telling the story up to that point. This portion of the book does focus on the negative aspects of "history", but the overriding messages of peace, love and joy are absent from this section. It feels more like a manifesto from a white supremacist group, as it intimates that much of humanity's issues stem from the "black and yellow races". It goes further to state that, in the year 3906, people of these races are virtually non-existent:

"Wars didn’t come naturally. They were artificially created by their bad and unworthy leaders along with the weapon manufacturers, mainly Asian,” he claimed. “They pushed peoples towards hatred and mutual extermination. It is fortunate that our species managed to prevail. The risk was fatal.” Many a time I wondered if what Lain (a professor who is teaching history to Dienach) said to the children was objective and fair. Listening to him you’d think that the yellow and black races, which never found vindication in history and which are almost absent nowadays, were solely to blame for everything."


"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,"


"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—"


Even Dienach himself found the disappearance of two races to be a questionable occurrance, writing:

“What happened to the ancient civilisations of Asia, you hypocrites?”That’s what I should ask them! On the Reigen-Swage(a future technology akin to television) I saw that only until the mid-24th century of our own chronology were there still some “yellow pockets” scattered here and therein the vast territory of Asia, which is now inhabited by the French, Anglo-Saxons, Slavs and Latinos. I also saw that at the same time on the “black continent” it was tremendously rare for one to encounter any blacks. Fate was very cruel to these races and quite ironic as well, because while they had just ceased to be slaves and were emancipated politically in autonomous territories, the brutal attitude of their “old colonial oppressor”, who had meanwhile panicked by the “nightmare of the number,” returned to haunt them for another 150 years. The earth must have witnessed horrid atrocities of inhumanity after the 21st century, which lasted for hundreds of years. Ultimately, the black and yellow races, as well as all other races of Asia, paid the price with the termination of their own history on earth."


Whether these were the dreams of someone in a comatose state, the manifesto of someone or some groupwhose ideology is built on the premise of a master race, or just the imagination of a sci-fi author, is unknown. But I think it's clear that Paul Amadeus Dienach did not visit the future. This could have been an inspirational vision of what humanity can aspire to, but the fact the it had to be achieved at the expense of diversity spoils the message
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BlackAsh13 | Jan 14, 2017 |

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