Week 4: "Beyond a Boundary" and "Hind Swaraj"

Week 4: "Beyond a Boundary" and "Hind Swaraj"

I like Gandhi's idea for freeing one self from technology to be completely free. We should free our selves from the technologies and capitalistic things that our oppressors brought to our land. He talks about how the Manchester Cotton company came to India and exploit the people for labor and the land for materials.  Big factories and companies come into these developing countries and exploit the
people and the materials. Financial and technological tie was a way to dominate and assert authority over India. Gandhi later goes and contradicts himself by saying how we can't completely let go of it all because we've  grown to them and have accustom to them. The interviewer ask Gandhi, about printing press. Gandhi reply back by said "using poison to kill poison." Gandhi uses the printing press to reach out to vase group of people and by doing so he is using the technology brought by t e Europeans. Relating this to my personal store, my parents farm. They work hard to harvest their crops and make it little out of it. These other big company's genetically modify their produce and mass produce their products. It's the matter of quality versus quantity. It sad to say but most people buy from the quantity and the quality loses profit.  

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