Later in the essay he starts describing how the economy is going to hurt the world and the fairs with other countries. He believes that the government is trying to show people that the bigger the better and that it will make things better. In his eyes this not a good thing at all and that we should stop worrying about all this a go back to nature. He also goes on to describe about the people who are trying to save the natural resources that this is a good thing that will keep the earth intact and safe from industrialization.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
"the whole horse" berry
Reading this essay was harder than the other essay we have read. In this type of essay you have to read very carefully to be able to understand and to get what the author is saying. But from my guess of the essay the author was grown up the old fashion way. Throughout the entire essay he referenced and described the life of a agrarian. From the essay I have come to the conclusion that a agrarian is someone that really believes in the farming and agricultural life. They also do not believe in industrialization and want no part of it. It may seem that the author is also a strong believer in this. He is also against large things like government. In the essay it says "The industrial economy alienates people from the native landscape precisely by breaking these direct practical ties and introducing distant dependences." Just by reading this sentence it tells me a lot about how the author feels about industrial economy. He feels that it should not be needed and that it takes us away from our roots and out nature; the nature that makes us who we are. He also goes on to say "nature as the final judge, law-giver, and pattern-maker of and for the human use of the earth." This statement can be true on many different levels. This is true because nature does hold our future and what we are as humans. It is what we came from and what we are.
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I do agree with you that this essay was a little harder to read. However, once you had to read it through like what, twice, his points become clear as crystal. To me, an agrarian is the in between from the extreme environmentalist and industrialist. He wanted everything on a smaller level in order to protect our land. He does though, understand the need for some industrialization, just on a smaller level then we have now. Over all, I think agrarian wasn’t so much as farming but community based economy so they can protect the environment. Though, farming was very important within the agrarian idea.
I agree with you on the difficulty of the text. My first time through I got something totally different out of it than the main point.
I partially agree with the author, but felt that he repeated himself, and nulled some of his own points.
Rachel i agree with your opinion on "the whole horse," you are probably right on on the authors back ground, you can tell he was probably raised as an agrarian. You are accurate in the thought of an agrarian really believing in the farming and agricultural life, they do not believe in industrialization and want no part of it whatsoever. All of our futures are found within nature, we are all part of nature though now days it is harder to see.
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