"I should like to know why you’re opposed to machinery. After all, it’s the natural outcome of man’s genius and is part of his evolutionary progress. It is here to free him of the bondage of slavery, to help him to leisure and higher culture. I grant that machinery with only the consideration of profit has thrown men out of work and created a great deal of misery, but to use it as a service to humanity, that consideration transcending everything else, should be a help and benefit to mankind… . .You must progress like the western world. Sooner or later you will adopt machinery."
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From a conversation in a chance meeting between Charlie Chaplin and Mahatma Gandhi from the book Chaplin in the Sound Era: An Analysis of the Seven Talkies.
This idea was the foundation of Chaplin’s Modern Times. Fascinating.
