General Interest > Tacitus' Realm
What is the economy anyway ??
starry-eyed pirate:
--- Quote from: "Paul St. John" ---I've studied them a bit. I have no quarrel with their ways, but I would not attempt to impose it on others. Actually, one of the coolest things, I think, about their culture, is that they actually let the teens leave, and go into the outside world for a bit, once they reach a certain. They are allowed to abandon every Amish rule, for a time period, and then they get the opportunity to choose which ways they will embrace. It's kinda fucked up , taht if the youths choose the outside, their family disowns them, but at least they give them a choice.
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Yeah, I live near the Amish and sometimes see their buggies parked up at my corner grocery, so I have come to know them somewhat, even though I don't know any personally. I have some close friends who are organizing an intentional community in central America, and one of their guidelines is no electricity. There is already an established Amish order down there, and my friends have been socializing and learning some of the ways of their Amish neighbors and telling me about it.
starry-eyed pirate:
--- Quote from: "Paul St. John" ---
--- Quote from: s'starry-eyed pirate" ---What we have now is corporate feudalism.
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What we have now is whatever you want. You want to be a corporate serf, you can be. But to tell others that they have no choice is incorrect and to be honest, just a plain old downer.
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I am not the type to make anybody do anything. I'm the type who wonders aloud and asks what's goin on and hopes to gain some insight or knowledge. I pretty much fully expect people to continue to be morons, but I do what I can anyway. I guess I do come off a little reactionary. It's not really a downer, once you let go of your shallow, physical and mental attachments to society, and the enrichment of the individual and family life could be well worth the sacrifice,m depending upon individual circumstances. Unless you mean being forced to behave a certain way is a downer, then yeah I know. Anyway, I never meant to imply that we should force everyone to comply with my ideals. I'm not an authoritarian, just wondering what other people thought about it...you know...and hopin to learn somethin along the way.
That said, sometimes there aint no choice anyway and it's better to take control than be dictated to.
starry-eyed pirate:
I'll have to get back later...
Samara:
So who is jumping up to join your friends in the international, no electricity, no toilet community?
Man being man will fuck up any system. Whether primitive or corporate. Utopia becomes dystopia. There will always be a minority concentration of power. There will always be threats to power. There will always be over-reactive nimwits.
But it is wayyyyy to easy to let "The Program Matrix Theory" become the end all-be all excuse for individual shortcomings.
Froderik:
--- Quote from: "Samara" ---But it is wayyyyy to easy to let "The Program Matrix Theory" become the end all-be all excuse for individual shortcomings.
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Come again?
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