n. A technician or a business man is created through training. A good farmer, on the other hand, is a cultural product. He is created by a sort of training, seen through the time he imposes or demands, but he is also made by generations of experience. If a culture is to hope for survival, then the relationships within it must, in recognition of their independence, be mainly cooperative rather than competitive. A people cannot live long at each others expenses or at the expense of their cultural birthright. The relationships in the universe are thus not competitive but interdependent.Berry does prove his thesis by showing that modernization has a hand in the destruction in the farming culture. He stated that as the societys technology improves their way of life we seem to forget the significance of the common knowledge about the land. Also he looks down of the competition within the culture who are competing with one another. He despises the fact that some small farmer cannot compete with the bigger farms because small farms lack money, resources and manpower to keep up. All of this replaces the distraction of the farming culture today....
