Global interconnectedness made total rejection of modernization untenable.

Evidence

In the twentieth century improvements in transportation and communication and global interdependence increased tremendously the costs of exclusion. Except for small, isolated, rural communities willing to exist at a subsistence level, the total rejection of modernization as well as Westernization is hardly possible in a world becoming overwhelmingly modern and highly interconnected. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 196