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fferent from what we thought. we learned not to believe in anything, to ignore one another, to care only about ourselves. concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgivenelost their depth and dimension, and for many of us they represented only psychological peculiarities, or they resembled gone-astray greetings from ancient times, a little ridiculous in the era of computers and spaceships. only a few of us were able to cry out loudly that the powers that be should not be all-powerful and that the special farms, which produced ecologically pure and top-quality food just for them, should send their produce to schools, children's homes and hospitals if our agriculture was unable to offer them to all.

the previous regime - armed with its arrogant and intolerant ideology - reduced man to a force of production, and nature to a tool of production. in this it attacked both their very substance and their mutual relationship. it reduced gifted and autonomous people, skillfully working in their own country, to the nuts and bolts of some monstrously huge, noisy and stinking machine, whose real meaning was not clear to anyone. it could not do more than slowly but inexorably wear out itself and all its nuts and bolts.

when i talk about the contaminated moral atmosphere, i am not talking just about the gentlemen who eat organic vegetables and do not look out of the plane windows. i am talking about all of us. we had all become used to the totalitarian system and accepted it as an unchangeable fact and thus helped to perpetuate it. in other words, we are all - though naturally to differing extents - responsible for the operation of the totalitarian machinery. none of us is just its victim. we are all also its co-creators.

why do i say this? it would be very unreasonable to understand the sad legacy of the last forty years as something alien, which some distant relative bequeathed to us. on the contrary, we have to accept this leg

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