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These citizens of the vill age ought to keep busy at the work of creating for the needsof the village community . Gandhi said, It is a tragedy of the first magnitude thatmillions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed uponus this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery methods continues, itis highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak thatwe shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machinesgiven us by God. Millions cannot keep fit by games and athletics; and why should theyexchange the useful, productive, hardy occupations for the useless, unproductive andexpensive sports and games? The local village based econo my takes care of itself, thefamilies look after each other, and land is cared for by present and future needs. Theway we choose to live is ours to make in every moment.Gandhi knew that, with the globalization of the economy,every nation would wish to export more and import less tokeep the balance of payments in its favour. There would beperpetual economic crisis, perpetual unemployment, andperpetually discontented and disgruntled human beings.(Only Connect, pg. 174)He was rightthat is exactly what we have achieved. These problems are the onesthat get worse with the passage of time and the further the current global economicconsumer oriented society develops. As Gandhi said, A certain degree of physicalcomfort is necessary but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help;therefore, the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying themseems to be a delusion and a trap. The satisfaction of ones physical needs must comeat a certain point to a dead stop before it degenerates into physical decadence.Europeans will have to remodel their outlook if they are not to perish under theweight of the comforts to which they are becoming slaves. Simply stated he said,People have to live in village communities and simple homes rather than desire tolive in palaces. We have a choice to create these types of communities. Unfortunatelywe have been brain washed into the European or western capitalist model. AsGandhi says weve become slaves to a system that was not of our making. It is timenow to rise up and fight this injustice using the tools, practices, principles, andinspiration that Gandhi has left usBeyond this point, once desire takes hold, once the idea of the palace for everyonebecomes the dream, then greed sets in. The greed has set in motion our delusionalattraction to the idea of endless gr owth and endless consumption. This system simplydoesnt work because at a certain point enough is enough. From the book Only112