After Dwayne and Aylen had finished their
conversation, they engaged 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, one
after the other, all their opponents were defeated. In all major states
they 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, this was 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 archenemy, 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 also 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 the honor of the
family was 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, these values were ever
since found in decay.
The break in the traditional family rule was
so severe, that the close association of the dynastic religiousness of
sacrifices, welfare activities, charity and public ceremonies on the
one hand and the secular rule of the state on 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 greatuncle 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, he, as the last great ruler
of the family, withdrew also, having fallen from public grace. He was
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, he could later 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 he wrote, 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.
