What you're about to start reading and then give up on in a few minutes

is an account of the grisly ruins of human civilization

from one who walked among them, many decades from now,

and who journeyed back to our time at no small personal costs,

particularly to those he met here, to warn us of the horrors that await.

It describes in unblenching detail

a seconding blizzard of crimes, immoralities and blasphemies

carried out by governments and corporations, monarchies, celebrities, bodyguards, billionaires,

and your future self. Though often distressing and frequently dull, everything in this book is

serious, important and true. Nothing in this book is for entertainment purposes only, or at all. If at any point

you find yourself being entertained, something has gone gravely wrong, and you should start again at the

beginning, ideally with a fresh copy. You do not have to believe everything this book tells you,

but one day you will, even if this is your dying thought. damn them to hell, they were right.

And die you might.

For though this book offers vital protection against a future

that will do its best to destroy you,

we cannot claim that it will save your life.

All that we humbly claim is that it will save mankind.

We will explain later how this is so.

It is a little complex. The explanation would take us to the

very outer reaches of science and philosophy, and indeed beyond them, to a place philosophers call

beyond philosophy. No sense can be made of the book itself without a close preparatory study of the

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