Modernization the death of us all..At least for us ,peasants..

[undergroundpanther]

Human nature, obstinate and fundamentally rebellious, is in fact represented in the colonies by the bush, by mosquitoes, natives, and fever, and colonization is a success when all this indocile nature has finally been tamed. Railways across the bush, the draining of swamps and a native population which is non-existent politically and economically are in fact one and the same thing
(Fanon 1968:250).

The economic planners...envisage the systematic elimination of the peasant... For short-term political reasons, they do not use the word elimination but the word modernization. Modernization entails the disappearance of the small peasant (the majority) and the transformation of the remaining minority
into totally different social and economic beings. (John Berger 1979:209)

To sedentize dispersed and alien indigenes... he exhorted private individuals and helped communities build temples , market-places, houses.... Wearing our clothing became an honor, even togas a lot of the time. Gradually succumbed to our vices...And to that the conquered gave the name of "modernization," which was actually part and parcel of their enslavement (Tacitus 98 A.D.: ch .21.1-2, RKD tr.).

"Still, speed, mobility, gratification of the will; those were good things, modern things....That was all that really mattered...get the fucking job done.... Regrets, consequences, disappointments; to hell with them all." - Lisa Mason, Arachne (1990:39,40)
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Consider this a warning, this be our future too,especially if you are poor or not into"modernity"..We very well may face the same fate of indigenous cultures the world over, it can happen to us American"peasants"...Me thinks it is very much a possibility it can.WE go last,because as they say keep your friends close and your enemies closer..The dominator's and controllers of this modern colonialist culture, want to do away with all "dull cares"..I wish we could do away with all of them.