How to call It?

Our daily lives are articulated by so many practically unavoidable gestures and motions that keep us bound to an increasing deterioration of the material terrestrial reality. A few of us here and there do try to extirpate themselves out of this ubiquitous trap and to desist from contributing to it at all, promoting through their acts a radical “return to nature”, renouncing and disengaging themselves as thoroughly as possible from all modern amenities. Their objective is to become entirely free of any other dependency than that of their own labor and of nature’s bounties for their subsistence.

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Fifty years ago already, Douce Mere wondered whether the Force of peace and harmony would be able to save the earth - and at the time the main concerns were of the conflicts between nations with their direst consequences and of the rapid increase of duplicity and falsehood, with its sinister effects. Now these consequences and effects bear directly on the physical condition of the earth, on the state of its body.

Duplicity has so many faces; dishonesty has so many degrees.

In the perspective of the true being, we all are, sometimes or often, dishonest: whenever we do not do our work, do not fulfill our task as well, as exactly, scrupulously, carefully and

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