> They did not believe in technological progress nor could they have: the alien idea was invented after them, to try and prevent their recurrence. In light of this invention[ideology/world view], the Luddites were cast as irrational, provincial, futile, and primitive...[They] were perhaps the last people in the West to perceive technology in the present tense, and to act upon that perception.

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