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All it takes is for someone to snoop around to look for another destination. A place where people lead an idyllic life living in symbiosis with the elements of nature, with the divine forces as their guiding light. Venture capitalists move in. They show them the carrot and the lure of what money can do to enrich their 'impoverished' lives. They influence the elders who steamroll all oppositions who want to maintain the status quo. The general public thinks the opposers are just spoiled sports, reminiscing the old times, living in the past and not moving with times. The time to live, the new kids on the block say is now, and they do not want to be left behind.

So builds a frenzy, to join the bandwagon to draw sightseers to see what they had to offer. The natives were willing to play dance monkey to the tune of the first world revellers. Slowly, the natives' lives change. Their age-old tradition of caring for humanity rather than worldly materialistic things is but a thing of the past. Rituals and prayers are only for display like a caged animal in a zoo or a museum piece. Hey, it draws the crowd, and it pays for 'modernity' and 'development'. They all want to move forward in life, what to go one step ahead of what our forefathers left them. The world is changing, and they have a lot of catching up to do! They want modern education, modern amenities, industrialisation and avert the laborious unproductive ways of their fathers. They want to catch up with the rest of the world.

"For how long are they going to be cocooned on their so-called glorious past?" they ask.

Just like that modernity embraced the society.

Fast forward. What they see now is their people in the same helplessness. The only difference is that it had become worse with the introduction of greed as the primary armamentarium to prosper. Gone are the community spirit and need to live for continuity of the clan. They, instead, have become chess pieces in the game of the rich. Their way of life has become a hedonistic indulgence of the affluent to spread their beliefs as if they are too stupid to understand Nature and to live to respect it. The 'bearers of miracles' give them things under the pretext of bringing them out of the yoke of ignorance but time has shown that their shrewdness. See how many of theirs have been disillusioned with 'progress' and joined blindly to chase the mirage? There must be some wisdom in the words of the forefathers!
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