Behold the Wanderer: A Novel against Modernity by Mathijs Koenraadt

Author:Mathijs Koenraadt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction; Religion; Science; Europe; Open Society; Progressive Liberalism; Urban Civilization
Publisher: Morningtime
Published: 2019-10-24T14:01:42+00:00

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Revival

Wulf had a vision. He was going to rally the vagabonds, march them to the Europolis and drive a stake through the heart of the city. He was going to let the whole world in on the forbidden knowledge he had received from professor Altstein’s report. He would return to the so-called civilized world and prove his innocence. Above all, he was going to preach the existence of a Greater Being, reawakening mankind from an age-long sleep. The New Era would come to an end. Its demise would fuel mankind’s revival.

Wulf was determined to expose the scientific worldview for what it really was, an insidious fraud. By declaring physical reality the only real reality, eliminating the spiritual dimensions of souls, free will, and consciousness, scientists had constructed an economic doctrine in their shareholders’ benefit but not an objectively true one. He believed the scientific worldview had been concocted by a caste of urban usurers to maximize the productivity of its captive peoples.

If a belief in God or a faith in religion introduced unprofitable inefficiencies, because the faithful believed there were more important things to do in life than to pursue profits, then these superstitions had to be effaced. So, the Council’s top scientists invented the religion of scientific atheism. Gradually, the early revolutionaries removed God from public and private life.

Everything remotely uneconomical had to make way for progress. Along with it came the progressive urbanization of the world, the crime of herding human beings into concrete boxes, disconnecting them from the natural world, disarming them, grooming them, and conditioning them for the benefit of their exploitation.

Among professor Altstein’s papers, Wulf found the foundational document of the Europolis, titled The Urban Declaration of Human Rights, the pinnacle of political achievement. Its introductory notes emphasized the perfect equality of all to all. Taken to its absurd conclusion, Wulf reasoned the document granted men the “equal rights” to become mothers and to bear children. “Determined to promote social progress,” the declaration effectively treated all people like women. When, finally, all male differences had been effaced, the Council foretold there would be “freedom, justice, and peace in the world.”

The declaration did not attempt to hide its political faith, stating that “every individual and every organ of global society … shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures … to secure their universal and effective recognition”.

Article 2 of the declaration awarded everyone the rights outlined in it “without distinction of any kind,” which also denied distinctions based on competency, skill, intelligence, and experience. To assert its status as an assimilative doctrine, the article further read “no distinction shall be made based on the … country or territory to which a person belongs”. Wulf figured that meant the declaration applied to all people, even to individuals who did not wish to be applicable.

The declaration was full of irony. Article 4 stated, “no one shall be held in slavery or servitude,” except for people’s compulsory deference to the international order.

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