> ... 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

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