ChefBourgeoisie
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The last few months I've been slumming around on /pol/, I see ever more often someone saying something along the lines of "well, the Amish will at least prosper once the rest of us are gone". Often with a dozen more more kike/nigger/faggot level slurs. This notion is bizarre, and I have trouble determining if it is born out of ignorance, disregard, thoughtlessness, sheer stupidity, or some combination of those things.
Let's run through the scenario in full.
The rest of humanity other than the Amish become extinct due to troonery, faggotry, and school-indoctrinated "having no children will greatly reduce your carbon footprint" brainwashing. The Amish are still there, they have farms, and they have a awe-inspiring fertility rate (everyone marrying, often having 6+ children from each couple). Their numbers grow exponentially until a few centuries later, there are billions of Amish. And they all live happily ever after.
And some of that is true. They do have extraordinary fertility rates. They do highly favor farming as a means to earning their livelihoods. These things I do not and could not dispute. But they are a parasitic (not in a jew way, more in a clinical usage of the term) civilization. This doesn't make them offensive to me, I have no ill will towards them. Allow me to explain.
The Amish, for all their (mostly misunderstood) aversion to technology, use quite alot of modern technology just the same. Every piece of cloth in their homes and on their bodies comes out of textile factories in Asia. Every single scrap. They tend to not grow much in the way of fiber crops either (very little cotton, though the Mennonites in the Texas panhandle grow some small amout). Though they could likely ramp up production quite a bit if pressured, they do not have the expertise, tools, or facilities to process that. These processes are complicated, and without modern machinery absurdly labor-intensive. In medieval Europe, it was the work of women (spinning, and so forth, right out of the fairy tales). Not a few women, not many women, practically all of them. Even princesses and queens would do this shit. If they were to attempt to weave their own cloth, from yarn they spun from their own fiber, it would dominate their waking hours. But Amish women already perform many hours of work per day. There isn't a spare 14 hours to be found for them to make cloth.
The Amish also use tractors. The bishops (their spiritual leaders, one per village/clan/community) aren't totally against the idea of using tractors to farm, they're mostly against making it comfortable. This takes several forms... a seat on a tractor can't have springs, because that doesn't perform any real work, it only makes it a bit softer on the ass of the Amish man driving the tractor. The same for rubber tires... I shit you not, they have special steel wheels constructed, and drive the tractors around with those. Sort of looks like something out of a Mad Max movie. And over the last 50 years, most have adopted the use of tractors and related farm equipment for plowing, planting, fertilizing, and harvesting their crops. But when was the last time you saw an Amish petroleum refinery? There will be no fuel for these tractors. When was the last time you saw an Amish John Deere factory? There will be no replacement parts or replacement tractors when those inevitably fail irreparably (supposing they don't just rust away unmoving and unfueled). If they lose their tractors (often small and mid-sized, rarely if ever the gigantic ones), the number of acres they can cultivate drops fourfold or even eightfold, and the yields on that acreage also drops. Their ability to feed themselves has more constraints (and as with above, even less spare capacity to grow cotton or raise sheep).
Their problems do not end here, however. The Amish are well-renowned for their ability to come together as a community and build a barn or home in a single day. But when have you ever heard of an Amish iron foundry? When have the Amish ever mined for iron ore? How do you build a barn in a day without nails? One of the pants-on-head imbeciles on /pol/ saw fit to inform me that they'd just do this without nails... as if any of the other alternatives were even remotely viable. You can't build a barn in a day, if you use fancy joinery that relies on labor-intensive, careful precision fastenerless joints. You can't build those without some of them spending their lives doing nothing but practicing such joinery (the Amish don't tend to specialize in that way), and if you just do it the harder way you need more resources, time, etc. Which sort of misses the point. The Amish can gift a day's labor to their neighbor to build a barn, because it doesn't take very long, and tomorrow he can go right back to farming his own plot. He can't afford to spend 3 months helping his neighbor build the barn (and the community definitely can't afford everyone do this for 3 months).
Quite possibly the thing that will hurt them the most is this. Their women and their pregnancies benefit from modern medicine. They can have 7 or 8 children each only because of modern medicine. 200 years ago their fertility rate wasn't so impressive as that. Many women died in childbirth, many of their children died early. And if the rest of civilization fails, then these circumstances will revert to what they were centuries ago, as well.
If the rest of us go extinct, the Amish follow within a few centuries (at most).
Let's run through the scenario in full.
The rest of humanity other than the Amish become extinct due to troonery, faggotry, and school-indoctrinated "having no children will greatly reduce your carbon footprint" brainwashing. The Amish are still there, they have farms, and they have a awe-inspiring fertility rate (everyone marrying, often having 6+ children from each couple). Their numbers grow exponentially until a few centuries later, there are billions of Amish. And they all live happily ever after.
And some of that is true. They do have extraordinary fertility rates. They do highly favor farming as a means to earning their livelihoods. These things I do not and could not dispute. But they are a parasitic (not in a jew way, more in a clinical usage of the term) civilization. This doesn't make them offensive to me, I have no ill will towards them. Allow me to explain.
The Amish, for all their (mostly misunderstood) aversion to technology, use quite alot of modern technology just the same. Every piece of cloth in their homes and on their bodies comes out of textile factories in Asia. Every single scrap. They tend to not grow much in the way of fiber crops either (very little cotton, though the Mennonites in the Texas panhandle grow some small amout). Though they could likely ramp up production quite a bit if pressured, they do not have the expertise, tools, or facilities to process that. These processes are complicated, and without modern machinery absurdly labor-intensive. In medieval Europe, it was the work of women (spinning, and so forth, right out of the fairy tales). Not a few women, not many women, practically all of them. Even princesses and queens would do this shit. If they were to attempt to weave their own cloth, from yarn they spun from their own fiber, it would dominate their waking hours. But Amish women already perform many hours of work per day. There isn't a spare 14 hours to be found for them to make cloth.
The Amish also use tractors. The bishops (their spiritual leaders, one per village/clan/community) aren't totally against the idea of using tractors to farm, they're mostly against making it comfortable. This takes several forms... a seat on a tractor can't have springs, because that doesn't perform any real work, it only makes it a bit softer on the ass of the Amish man driving the tractor. The same for rubber tires... I shit you not, they have special steel wheels constructed, and drive the tractors around with those. Sort of looks like something out of a Mad Max movie. And over the last 50 years, most have adopted the use of tractors and related farm equipment for plowing, planting, fertilizing, and harvesting their crops. But when was the last time you saw an Amish petroleum refinery? There will be no fuel for these tractors. When was the last time you saw an Amish John Deere factory? There will be no replacement parts or replacement tractors when those inevitably fail irreparably (supposing they don't just rust away unmoving and unfueled). If they lose their tractors (often small and mid-sized, rarely if ever the gigantic ones), the number of acres they can cultivate drops fourfold or even eightfold, and the yields on that acreage also drops. Their ability to feed themselves has more constraints (and as with above, even less spare capacity to grow cotton or raise sheep).
Their problems do not end here, however. The Amish are well-renowned for their ability to come together as a community and build a barn or home in a single day. But when have you ever heard of an Amish iron foundry? When have the Amish ever mined for iron ore? How do you build a barn in a day without nails? One of the pants-on-head imbeciles on /pol/ saw fit to inform me that they'd just do this without nails... as if any of the other alternatives were even remotely viable. You can't build a barn in a day, if you use fancy joinery that relies on labor-intensive, careful precision fastenerless joints. You can't build those without some of them spending their lives doing nothing but practicing such joinery (the Amish don't tend to specialize in that way), and if you just do it the harder way you need more resources, time, etc. Which sort of misses the point. The Amish can gift a day's labor to their neighbor to build a barn, because it doesn't take very long, and tomorrow he can go right back to farming his own plot. He can't afford to spend 3 months helping his neighbor build the barn (and the community definitely can't afford everyone do this for 3 months).
Quite possibly the thing that will hurt them the most is this. Their women and their pregnancies benefit from modern medicine. They can have 7 or 8 children each only because of modern medicine. 200 years ago their fertility rate wasn't so impressive as that. Many women died in childbirth, many of their children died early. And if the rest of civilization fails, then these circumstances will revert to what they were centuries ago, as well.
If the rest of us go extinct, the Amish follow within a few centuries (at most).
