[QUOTE=VIDEODROME;6627323]That ain't sad: you should be in awe of it, too. Old beat-up cars rule.I dunno, I've lived around Amish people and that's not for me lol. I would buy produce from them and it seemed sad their kids were in awe of my old beat up car.
Oh brother, who cares? Remember how I was more concerned about HUMANS living satisfying, meaningful, happy lives? If that meant we had to kill all the horses and eat them, I'd be down with that. So would every other (even marginally) sane person.Some Amish also still seem cool with animal abuse mistreating their horses. Something about God giving man dominion over the animals is interpreted as giving permission to treat them poorly or leave them Parked for hours still tethered to their buggies.
Whoa, there is still corruption, even among the Amish?Also, young Amish who simply have to much human curiosity about the world can be caught being to familiar with Evil Technology and shunned. I don't think the Amish are really above corruption either and Elders may wield Shunning as a tool to protect their interests or in some cases their drug crops.
See, this is why I call it Neo-Puritanism (this week). And by this paragraph you seem to be infected by it, Videodrone. It's this obsession to create a perfect utopia on Earth, a driving manic force to sculpt human nature into New [Fill-In-The-Buzzword] Man, and the deranged and reality-ignoring belief that they could actually succeed. Because obviously there is corruption in human societies. Obviously there is unkindness. Obviously people have their own interests and agendas. That you trumpet the existence of these obvious universalities as proof of the Failure of the Amish communities is very telling. It reveals to us readers, and perhaps, if you're extremely smart and capable of self-reflection, to yourself, what it is your mind-bug is driving at. Failure to do what? To eliminate human failings, failings which obviously cannot be eliminated. Why does the mind-bug want you to focus on that? Ahh, you'll have to figure that out on your own. Think on it.
There is no backwards, only forwards. Now jump in the Ghetto Cruiser and let's do this thing! Savin' the world. Buckin' the trends. Remember: the rebel of the twenty-first century will be old-fashioned. And one way or other, we shall assuredly win. The future belongs to me.I suppose Modernity can have awkward growing pains as things advance, but I don't see any benefit to going backwards and regressing in an idealized Shire.
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