Chapter 18
"Industrialization is, I am afraid, going to be a curse for mankind.... God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single time island kingdom is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 millions took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.... Industrialization on a mass scale will necessarily lead to passive or active exploitation of the villagers.... The machine produces much too fast." -Mahatma Gandhi
This quote from chapter 18 stood out to me. The industrial revolution has lead to the disintegration of culture. The more ahead you are in society regarding to technology, or things that make you more advanced than other societies when it comes to doing things easier or in a less amount of time you are given power to how advanced you are. Power such as Great Britain which started out as small but grew and grew until it almost dominated the entire world.
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