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> ... 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

> ... 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

> The eyes of an animal when they consider a man are attentive and wary. The same animal may well look at other species in the same way. He does not reserve a special look for man. But by no other species except man will the animal’s look be recognised as familiar. Other animals are held by the look.

Man becomes aware of himself returning the look.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/01/why-look-at-animals-john-berger-about-looking/
#MariaPopova #TheMarginalian quotes #JohnBerger's #AboutLooking #WhyLookAtAnimals #AnimalViews #動物視線

> ... what concerns Berger is the loss of a meaningful connection to nature, a connection that can now only be rediscovered through the experience of beauty: "the aesthetic moment offers hope." Berger's writing is wonderfully physical, with a powerful sense of how things look, smell, feel.... the aesthetic key to unlock the true order of things.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/sep/19/why-look-animals-john-berger
#JohnBerger #AboutLooking #AnimalViews #動物視線

> The animal scrutinises him across a narrow abyss of non-comprehension. This is why the man can surprise the animal. Yet the animal — even if domesticated — can also surprise the man. The man too is looking across a similar, but not identical, abyss of non-comprehension. And this is so wherever he looks. He is always looking across ignorance and fear. And so, when he is being seen by the animal, he is being seen as his surroundings are seen by him.
#JohnBerger #AboutLooking #鈴木邦弘 #動物視線

I just got some pages about Choe Je-u and Donghak, and the #Donghak #PeasantRevolution. Tonight I'll try a deeper reading of the pages, but a video title "Humans Treated Like Heaven Again" and a few other eye-catching phrases are what reminded me of the #JohnBerger quotes above. The Introduction in his #PeasantTrilogy, starting with #PigEarth, come to mind a lot. Practical advice in there too: when the armed guys rush towards you don't run but don't do anything.
#ChoeJeU in #Korea

> The peasant imagines an unhandicapped life, a life in which he is not first forced to produce a surplus before feeding himself and his family, as a primal state of being which existed before the advent of #injustice. Food is man’s first need. Peasants work on the land to produce food to feed themselves. Yet they are forced to feed others first, often at the price of going hungry themselves.. they who can feed themselves are instead being forced to feed others..
#JohnBerger #PigEarth #Peasants

> Do you know what those machines are for?
> They plough, they turn hay, they spread dung, they milk—it depends, answered Nicole.
> There’s one job they all do.
> He looked into her eyes with the utmost seriousness. For all their experience, Nicole’s eyes were innocent.. but they had never seen men poring over a map and drawing up a plan.
> Their job is to wipe us out.
#JohnBerger in #PigEarth #tractor #PeasantOnMachines #荘子 #天地編 #ChuangTzu #farmer #gardener
https://archive.org/details/sacredbookschin00legggoog/page/n347/mode/2up