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> Old Man Grayson, that stubborn old coot, refuses to use those new-fangled machines in his mill. “It just ain’t natch’rl.” “He’s a horse drawn man until his dying day.”
#LangdonWinner on #RodStewart and #CountryComforts which I think is a song on the album #GasolineAlley which I imagine is before #BlondesHaveMoreFun ? #OldManGrayson may have seen the end of their Country Comforts by spending on machines, like a #JohnBerger #PigEarth character saw a free tractor.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/gasoline-alley-188009/ -
> ... this peasant tradition..[is] often heretical and subversive. “Don’t run away from anything,” says the Russian peasant proverb, “but don’t do anything.”.... the peasantry everywhere can be defined as a class of survivors. For a century and a half now the tenacious ability of peasants to survive has confounded administrators and theorists...
1979!!! #JohnBerger in the Introduction to #PigEarth and the other two books in the #PeasantTrilogy #Peasants #Survivors #PeasantTradition