oung people expect to leave as soon as they finish high school, they do not have permanent interest in farming. They generally are not interested in anything that cannot be reached by automobile on a good road. Some of the farmers children will be able to afford to stay on the farm. Perhaps even fewer will wish to do so, for it will cost too much, require too much work and worry, and it is hardly a fashionable ambition.Another argument that Berry proposes is the connection between the modernization of agricultural techniques and the disintegration of the culture, as well as the communities of farming and the consequent disintegration of structures of urban life. What we called agriculture progress has involved the forcible displacement of millions of people. An example of modernization can be seen through the idea of Get big or get out. Its a policy that says that you have to become more modern through change and be competitive in order to keep up with the other competitors. If not, than you must get of what you are doing. This can be used through a comparison of communist using military force in order to remove those who refuse to follow their demand for change, and the government using their economic power to force farmers to improve their farming techniques. In a Free Market the most successful becomes the richest. To those who could not improve their business or compete with those who are successful, they have to get out of the business in order to save themselves. If they refuse to leave, they may suffer a huge loss to their economic well being. For a social or economic goal, size is the most important thing and it is establishing an inevitable tendency toward the one that will be the biggest of all. Many of those who got big to stay in are now being driven out by those who are even bigger. The aim of big businesses is to make as much money as possible but at the cost of others. Hedonism is alive and well in this competitive game ...
