Or you could try to understand why they would think this way, and perhaps get an understanding of how people you utterly disagree with reason and think.
"They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skilful with tools." - Concerning Hobbits
The Scouring Of The Shire is the account of anti-industrial direct action, for Iluvatar's sake.
Sigh.
I think at least Excession has one of the protagonists transition at the end of the novel.