The news came from the State House through Big Ben Mambo, Minister of Information, and it was broadcast by all the media. The Ruler had devised a philosophy that would cure the people of the stresses of modernity. The government printer even issued a booklet: Magnus Africanus: Prolegomenon to Future Happiness, by the Ruler. The book said, among other things, that during his retreat and meditation it had been revealed to the Ruler that the real threat to Aburĩria’s future lay in people’s abandoning their traditions in pursuit of a stressful modernity.
