If Slow Living is to thrive, it will need positive activists to stop the juggernaut of modern progress - though the Slow Food movement is already dynamic in its denunciation of the use of pesticides in farming.
The first Indonesian novels also appeared in the 1920s and '30s; these were typical regional works by Abdul Muis and others in which the central theme is the struggle between the generations, between the stifling burden of traditionalism and the impulse for modern progress.
Recognising the importance of the need for change therefore means trying to minimise the impact that modern progress has on human health and the environment.
It is the last truly American place, untainted by the regrets of modern progress.
So he lures her into the back roads of his gypsy world so she can discover first hand the blood and roots of his duende, the true flamenco, as it is lived, free, spontaneously, under the wide open sky, without money, passports or credentials, a world unto itself, of astonishing beauty and contrasts, unknown to most, about to be lost forever to the onslaught of modern progress.
Leaving the hyperbole aside, artificial illumination has arguably been the greatest symbol of modern progress.
Mr. Tice's mission is a form of historic preservation, a resistance to the mindless steamroller of modern progress.
His name was Mao Zedong, and his uneducated infatuation with the signs and symbols of modern progress — gigantic projects and economic statistics — caused a famine that dwarfed even the Incredible Famine.
The Guardian's Michael Billington said it offered "a rutting rake's modern progress" but it lacked the "subversiveness" of Molière's original.
Ironically, one of the first pictures of Mont Sainte-Victoire painted by Cézanne, a fierce opponent of modern progress, was a protest against the proposed Aix-Rognac railway line, which would cut through the family estate.
