#thewellsweep — Public Fediverse posts
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> "If you had a machine here.. in a day you could irrigate a hundred times your present area. The labor required is trifling as compared with the work done. Would you not like to have one?.. It is a contrivance made of wood.. heavy behind and light in front. It draws up water.. in a constantly overflowing stream.. it is a #WellSweep
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59709/pg59709-images.html#Page_147
#ChuangTzu #荘子 #TheWellSweep #TheMachine
#Deforestation ? #Erosion ? other reasons ? One wonders after reading of the #PowerLoom -
> They did not believe in technological progress nor could they have: the alien idea was invented after them, to try and prevent their recurrence. In light of this invention[ideology/world view], the Luddites were cast as irrational, provincial, futile, and primitive...[They] were perhaps the last people in the West to perceive technology in the present tense, and to act upon that perception.
p. 4 #ProgressWithoutPeople #DavidNoble #Technology #Progress #SandInTheWheels #TheWellSweep