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How many thousandfold more echoes are in that liturgy which hums and splatters all the time around us, the liturgy of prophets and their flock praising economic growth, competitiveness, efficiency, and "competence."

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"In Karelia, I see, more clearly than ever, through the hypocritical illusion that man and nature could flourish simultaneously. They are always the opposites of each other, either - or. But in Karelia, I see a man, who ACCEPTS and RELI NQUISHES. It is an awesome experience. At last I understand why I live in constant horror in my own country, to which I'm bonded: why I have the feeling that I was being punched in the face all the time. It is not purely caused because forests have been ravaged and shores degraded on the demands of the market; it doesn't arise from the vast number of paved and concrete surfaces itself, or the excessive garish shine of cars wherever you lay your eyes. It is because everything in this country is raw, smooth, obvious, polished, perfect. The most horrendous thing is that this country is in the grip of order, here everything is in order. The brush saw is the most dreadful of tools. Every grain of sand has been stamped with the additional sign of ownership by man. There is nothing mysterious in Finland, nothing gentle, no faint shimmer anywhere. 6 For a moment, hope flashes in the groves of Vuoksi. Maybe sometime my Finland too, my Tavastia, will look like this, and will be revived. The grip of the tormentors loosens. My homeshores, my homeforests, are green and lush again. But it is only a flash. That won't happen. The opposite will''. 

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