Think back twenty years. What was the world, and your life, like then? Things have changed a lot haven't they. Life is more stressed - more gadget-driven, etc. If you're old enough, go back another twenty. What do you see now? A lot of changes in that period also. And another twenty?

You can keep going back like that, in twenty year increments, and see huge changes at every stage. Up until the eighteenth century, a wheel only turned as fast as a horse could pull it, as it had been for thousands of years - but since then the world has rarely stopped to catch its breath. Relative to the thousands of years preceding, the pace of change over the last few hundred years has been without precedent.

Now, consider what it would be like to take this accelerated history - the entire three hundred years of our industrial revolution - and jam it into twenty years. Hard to imagine isn't it?

There's no need to imagine it - you can watch it with your very eyes.

This is the story of change in one of the most remote places in the world - Ladakh, a highly arid and mountainous region having the highest altitude of any inhabited place on Earth. Our roads and our technology were very slow to arrive here - and until they did these people had lived full and self-sufficient lives for centuries.

The movie is beautiful, infuriating, and a must-see all at the same time. I would highly recommend our readers to purchase this DVD, and to share it with your friends and neighbours. You will come away with a deeper understanding and insight into the root causes, and solutions, for the problems of your own society - and have a deeper respect for the 'developing' world.

There is a famous saying: 'Those that fail to study history are destined to repeat it'. This movie is a microcosm of the changes in our modern society. Watch it.

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