The Amish have the antidote to empire. They've been exemplary at resisting the cultural onslaught of the mass media, the financial system, and the federal government. It's actually quite remarkable. Everyone else got sucked into the sewer of modernity and gave up just about everything in exchange for fake money.
The system of governance the Amish use for their church is probably part of the reason for their success in that regard. They have 1800 bishops that lead local congregations. The local groups are relatively free to adapt their practices, as far as I understand it, but the bishops tend toward tradition rather than change their ways.
The system of distributed decision making and incremental change is really a bulwark against infiltration and deception by predatory satanic institutions like the banks and the media. Institutions like the Catholic church, or the US government that have a pyramid-like hierarchy and pretense of "infallibility" are way easier to infiltrate and corrupt.
Another important aspect of the Amish life versus the typical American's life is they have an actual multi-generational community who lives in a given area. Everyone else in the United States moves all over, consequently they keep losing their support network, and keep leaving other people's support networks. There's really no chance of organizing anything in many communities. Corporations, on the other hand are stable by comparison.
The Internet might be an antidote to that atomizing aspect of career-chasing in the United States. (probably not really)
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