After
Dwayne and Aylen had finished their conversation,
engaged they spirited and energetic in the debate.
Aylen took the lead, closely followed by his four
brothers. The battle between the family members lasted
for eighteen days. In these days were, one after the
other, all their opponents defeated. In all major
states they had lost their constituency. While as good
as everybody in the end was embarrassed in the fray
because of scandals in the past, a lack of skills and
support, doubtful presentations, bad association, envy
and a lack of simple, straight knowledge of facts and
figures, was this not so with the well informed Aylen
who was constantly advised and protected to the
perfection by Dwayne's affluence, influence and
personal presence. Together they left no argument or
fact untouched. Basil Laborer, Aylen's arch enemy,
fell completely out of grace with the public because
of all the foul tricks and schemes he had employed in
his repressive campaigns in the past. He had to
withdraw completely from politics. Blind uncle Edward
lost his credibility and authority as a senior advisor
and withdrew to be never seen again in public life.
His life as well as his destructive family attachment
was over. Alex, the eldest brother became, with the
support of Dwayne, the president of the newly formed
world alliance. But never again was the honor of the
family definitely restored. The front they had always
formed, had collapsed and so did the public morality
associated with it. Whereas in the old days there was
an undisputed rule of truthfulness, faithfulness,
sacrifice and compassion, were these values ever since
found in decay.
The
break in the traditional family rule was that severe,
that the close association of the dynastic
religiousness of sacrifices, welfare activities,
charity and public ceremonies at the one hand and the
secular rule of the state at the other hand,
definitely had alienated into two separate societal
worlds. Aylen's grandson Sigismund, who, born with a
fine intellect and character, had a keen eye for
everyone and everything, and personally left no stone
unturned in the defense of the righteous rule - as far
as it had remained -, had followed his uncle Alex in
achieving the presidency. That presidency was the last
presidency for life in the world to be known. Because
of a conflict which had risen between his rule of
state and the freedom of religion and the press, had
also he, the last great ruler of the family, fallen
from public grace and was he impeached by the curse of
an insulted student in defense of his father, who was
a professor in philosophy ousted by Sigismund in one
of his traditionalist campaigns. Where Sigismund at
first had maintained that the alienated intellectuals
and the priesthood were all too lax and uncommitted
escapists, locked up in their own self-righteous ivory
towers, could he later on no longer maintain this
offensive position in the mode of passion. In the end
he turned out to be a staunch and devoted intellectual
himself. As a scholar well versed in the political
trade wrote he, after his impeachment, many books in
which he defended the necessity of the classical
values of the dynasty. But the integrity of these had
long been lost, remaining only within the confines of
the religious and intellectual, paradigmatic spheres
of life. Never was the classical rule of the dynasty
restored to its old grandeur, so that the common
people without much honor and decency kept on
quarreling in the political arena until the culture
had reached the end of its synergy and a new era for
the planet earth had
dawned.
