As well as
some societies are structured under the metaphor of the ‘forester', other societies
have a better ‘metaphorical figure' to describe them, we are talking about the «gardener»
figure. For Bauman (2007) the ‘forester' is a pre-modern model, whereas the
«gardener» is already a modern model. Regarding the advanced modernity and
fordist capitalism, we will describe them using the metaphorical figures of the
«technologist», «the engineer» and –also- «the agriculturalist» or «the farmer».
Despite the
fact of these societies internal diversity, modern societies share the need to
dominate and ‘improve' the natural order. They coincide in the need to define
an infinite progress inspired in a very secularized utopia. Consciously, the
‘gardener' –like the «technologists», «engineers» and
«farmers»- wants to transform, manipulate and perfect (in accordance with
strict human needs) the pre-existing wild nature. This won’t be any more ‘virgin'
neither will be left its autonomous dynamics, it will always be subjected
explicitly to the human will.