Two Worlds One Miserable Country

I am still shocked by how completely primitive this country can be, and how the country is in the midst of a revolution of the modern age, the average male here is a sheep herdsman, they spend all day moving sheep about in the desert hoping the sheep don't die as they try and find something green to eat, looking like they have come from the middle ages, they maybe even looked the same 2-3000 years ago, wrapped against the cold wind in headscarf and even a huge blanket type thing wrapping around them with just a small part of a well worn and hideously wrinkly face, they will sit about in the dirt even in town they sit in the dirt talking with other old guys who also sit in the dirt, wrapped in this filthy looking clothing, most houses here are a couple of block houses without running water and for sure no heating, so no showering in this winter climate, we have a young guy on site, about 20 years old or so and he smells like he has slept with the sheep, he obviously hasn't washed in months, maybe years, I was gagging when he was working in the control room, i couldn't go near him he was so pungent. Anyway the locals are just peasant farmers and have basically nothing other than a few mangy sheep, but the younger generation of school kids are exposed to the TV and other worldly influences and have puffy jackets and fake Nike trainers and fancy shaved heads with neatly clipped goatee beards and look like they came from London or New york, so how does this country cope with this culture shock, how will it cope over the next 20 years, i am not sure that the younger folks will tolerate herding sheep but what will they do in a country that is nothing but an extension to the Sahara desert, You see carts being pulled by Donkeys everywhere and especially at local builder merchants, as the donkeys are better suited to moving a few blocks about and they dont produce any CO2 only a pile of droppings which are good for the carrots. it makes me wonder if the end of the Petroleum era will make any changes here, Perhaps these people are perfectly suited to the non-car era

Great mode of Transport



Local Sheep Farmer, where I am it is more of a desert



Perhaps they are Happy living like this and I should respect them for their lifestyle and culture, but man i dont ever want to smell like a sheep farmer of Tunisia