“With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.” GivingTryingYearsTwoCountryPsychologyHigherThousandStandardsMadProfoundDecadesLustShockAfghanistanThousand YearsAsiaImperialismExpandingJerkStandards Of LivingUniformityHigher Standards Book:Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle Source: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
“The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession.” ShouldWarCountrySeemsAmericaUsedMethodExcusePossessionCriminalsRussiaAfghanistanAsiaImperialismAdoptedTug Of War Book:Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle Source: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
