Depends on the community. Medicine and not dying from a cut and no religiouse fundamentalism is quite nice
I sold electrical equipment to some Amish once, which felt real weird.
In what way? I assume they must have been familiar with how it worked, or was it like performing a magic trick?
My brother in Jehovah they’re Amish, not an uncontacted tribe
Oh well never met one, and from the little I know they can vary somewhere between late middle ages pilgrims up to the run of the mill religious person with a weird hat.
Not middle ages, think more 1700s religious radicals
They had a handyman who drove them and helped them with some woodworking i think, if I recall they were setting something up in their lumber mill
They’ve got some more leeway than youd think
So is an AC unit.
nah. not in the current version of ac. look how was this solved in the past. capitalism made everything worse. the need for ac creates more need of ac.
They most definitely did not get it right.
Having said that, there is some value to being thoughtful about the adoption of new technology. Especially when it comes to kids, some parents are too quick to allow their kids to use smartphones, tablets, chatGPT, etc. without much supervision.
But, the prospect of having to forego virtually all modern technology or become exiled from the only family and community you’ve ever known is crazy. It’s really only cults that require that you shun people who have left the “faith”.
Also, the modern Amish are the effect of multiple decades worth of Group Polarization. People in the community will hold different views. If someone has a view that the rules are too strict and that the group should be more lenient, they may eventually give up and just join the modern world. On the other hand, if someone thinks the group isn’t extreme enough, there is no other even more extreme group for them to join. So, they’ll stay and fight for their view. Over time, that means that the less extreme people tend to drift away, and the more extreme ones stay, leading to the group becoming more extreme.
But, the prospect of having to forego virtually all modern technology or become exiled from the only family and community you’ve ever known is crazy.
Sounds like being forced to use meta products to keep in touch with family who don’t want to learn how to use anything else.
They don’t know how to use the phone? They don’t know how to use regular postal mail?
Group chats have obvious utility beyond those methods.
You don’t have to have a group chat with your family.
I mean they’re definitely a cult who brainwash the shit out of women/children, so…I guess that’s cool?
Have you seen the state of the country lately?
Fuck the Amish
I feel like people are unaware there are intentional communities doing the same but without the religious basis.
Yeah, there are communes you can join. Even in America
My silent generation grandma was like this she ran a farm with chickens, turkeys, cows, a giant vegetable garden, a couple fishing ponds and drilled into my head that self sufficiency was super important. My parents Suburban life contradicted that message of course. I think about that a lot now
They’re also super inbred and have really high rates of extra fingers and toes.
They got something right. Like the rest of us they get plenty wrong
Things you say when you spend too much time on the internet and need to touch grass
Yeah? Go live authentically with them for a while and report back lol
…it was a joke bro 🫤
Joke sucked BRO
Ok
You got it wrong about Amish. They are not living off grid. They are living normally. We are living on-grid. Or trapped said otherwise.
