Changing tactics with the times. Each era has different hurdles and effectiveness of tactics.
- Movements, political ones especially have come and went.
- Instant bastard syndrome. We are too atomized, individual thinking. Each would be leader forms their own clique with a few assorted lemmings.
- Appealing to the greater good does not move folks to action. That is a Liberal instinct. Appealing to a truth a natural order moves folks.
Wanting the old order to die is not enough. Apathy and neglect will not defeat the pig system. Why not bleed it dry? Our instinct a Whites is pride, accomplishment. What if we used services up and worked under the table.
Don't say what you will do. Just do it without need for validation or reward.
The easy way out is also why so much sucks. Comfort is why we no longer maintain beauty.
The Amish live far outside the cultural mainstream. During the last century, they grew from 5,000, inhabiting a handful of states, to 200,000 souls living in 25 states and one Canadian province.
Preferring community to technology, the Amish live their lives in close fellowship with each other. Within their religious communities, everyone agrees on what technologies to adopt, what clothes to wear and what horse-powered transportation to drive.
A decade ago, approximately 90% of Amish earned their incomes from farming operations. Today, in some communities, less than 5% do so. Learn how the Amish have successfully responded to a tightening agricultural economy. See how their strict adherence to community values contributes to their doubling in size every 20 years.
This documentary takes you on an intimate journey into Ohio Amish life and culture. You will discover how rapid growth and economic pressures threaten their community. You will also meet a people who, as a result of creative disengagement with the culture around them, thrive.