Why don't Anarcho-Primitivists and Far Right Islamophiles join the Amish?

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HR Professional of Color
Having a 300+ year history as a coherent and successful community based on traditional values and stable families and a serious spiritual commitment is literally the exact opposite of LARPing. "Normal" Americans going to shitjobs and discussing prissy craft beer and real estate and niggerball and pumping out 2.3 kids in order to advertise their "success" by the conditions of the ersatz American dream, consuming shitty craft beer and antidepressants and watch niggerball on ComcastGold until they expire and their 1.9 estranged transgender kids pretend to mourn them are LARPing 1000x harder than the Amish. Who cares about Ted Kazinski, he was a friendless rain man who lived in an outhouse and mailed bombs and spastic screeds to nerds. What combination of words could he construct that would give him any standing to comment on actually successful community in opposition to modernity? How is this debatable?

Obviously not everybody can become Amish, it's not a business plan or a social media app or some gay political manifesto for austistic social failures. The point of healthy human communities is not to assimilate the rest of the world. The Amish persist (and if the chart above is accurate) and thrive in total opposition to everything that is bad about America, and preserving so much that once was so good. Their lives have purpose and meaning and their culture provides continuity with the past and eternity. "Normal" American lives are pointless and purgatorial compared to this. God bless them.
Carl the Small
I'm of partial Afrikaner descent myself and had no idea the Huguenots were so widespread in S.A though I do know Daniel Francois Malan was of Huguenot stock. The history of these Germanic diaspora communities is intriguing, mostly groups like the Mennonites, Huguenots etc. The Huguenots themselves seem to have largely dissipated having been absorbed into the Boer population and native British, Irish, German groups among whom they settled. I believe Walther Darre the National-Socialist champion of German peasantry was, like yourself, of Huguenot descent but I could be wrong.
Carl the Small
Didn't many of the Eastern Bloc regimes also believe this to be true of much Western 'pop culture' and behaviour? The GDR and Soviet Union both seem to have regarded homosexuality, for instance, to be a symptom of alienation and therefore ascribed no value to homosexual "expression". They regarded it as some outburst of alienated feeling rather than an 'identity' as even anti-homosexual politicos in The West conceive of it.
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Welund
I want to copy some of this model but without the Israelo-affectation, Sunni beard rules (no mustache) and such.

Self finance
Help each other
Avoid taxes
Trade outside of the dollar economy
Use technology that is self-reliant
Make own booze
Maybe focus on land property

This kind of stuff is only permissible in America with religious "states within a state" (Amish, Jews), which makes it a non-starter, since I don't want to start a religion.
Welund
I don't like them either, but I'm thinking in the American context a militant Germanic (eg, Ulster Irish) is just going to shed blood for "globalism," whereas the Amish just keep growing. After all, you just have to lose the war.
Dogmatic Tower

Anarcho-primitivists are seeking a life of pure leisure, and have convinced themselves that not merely pre-industrial but pre-agricultural modes of living are the way to achieve it. They'd be horrified by the amount of work - manual labor in particular - that comes with the Amish lifestyle.

"Far-right Islamophiles" ??? are too invested in the ideal of the "heroic", and look to the past because they no longer believe in the future: i.e. the turgid 1960s pulp scifi vision of the future. But nobody goes to a Renaissance festival to LARP as a serf.

Welund
Do you even lift?

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