"Another aspect of Arabic society is the scorn of honest, steady manual work, especially agricultural work. This is a consequence of the fusion of at least three ancient influences. First, the archaic bureaucratic structure of Asiatic despotism, in which the peasants supported the warriors and scribes, regarded manual workers, especially tillers of the soil, as the lowest layer of society, and regarded the acquisition of literacy and military prowess as the chief roads to escape from physical drudgery. Second, the fact that Classical Antiquity, whose influence on the subsequent Islamic civilization was very great, was based on slavery, and came to regard agricultural (or other manual) work as fit for slaves, also contributed to this idea. Third, the Bedouin tradition of pastoral, warlike nomads scorned tillers of the soil as weak and routine persons of no real spirit or character, fit to be conquered or walked on but not to be respected. The combination of these three formed the lack of respect of manual work that is so characteristic of the Pakistani-Peruvian axis.""Somewhat similar to this lack of respect for manual work are a number of other aspects of traditional Arab life that have spread the length of the Pakistani-Peruvian axis. The chief source of many of these is the Bedouin outlook, which originally reflected the attitudes of relatively small group of the Islamic culture but which, because they were a superior, conquering group, came to be copied by others in the society, even by the despised agricultural workers. These attitudes include lack of respect for the soil, for vegetation, for most animals, and for outsiders. These attitudes, which are singularly ill-fitted for the geographic and climatic conditions of the whole Pakistani-Peruvian area, are to be seen constantly in the everyday life of that area as erosion, destruction of vegetation and wild life, personal cruelty and callousness to most living things, including one’s fellow men, and a general harshness and indifference to God’s creation. This final attitude, which well reflects the geographic conditions of the area, which seem as harsh and indifferent as man himself, is met by those men who must face it in their daily life as a resigned submission to fate and to the inhumanity of man to man."
From Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, The Pakistani-Peruvian Axis
Back then, the US had plenty of work available for unskilled workers. That is certainly not the case in Europe today.
Good stuff, interesting research. This explains the subjugation of islamic farmers by the islamofascists. In much the same way as the oligarchic industrialists are posited as having the same disdain for “rich peasant farmers” who could not be entrapped in working for their combines and factories, nor be dependent on them for their food and water.
This is an old motif. Leave the farm to get a job in town, get trapped and never get back.
But the muzzie elite regard the peasant as a peasant just as much.
I liked the article with the explanation of the Middle Eastern mind set, as it explained many things I have been wondering about. I just hope the Western World wakes up in time to make some drastic changes otherwise we will be in a world of hurts if not, sad to say I wouldn’t rule out another war what it usually and unfortunately takes for people to reorganize their priorities.