Old order Mennonite started moving to this area about 15 years ago. I have got to know a few of the men, as I buy building supplies from them. They sell a lot of lumber, along with roof trusses, eaves trough, garage doors, etcetera.
I certainly don’t know how decisions are made in their community as to how they allow and don’t allow various technologies to enter their farm though I know they do decide among themselves what would be beneficial to their community and what wouldn’t be.
They don’t allow electrically from the grid. I have seen a couple of small generators that power a certain tool or a washing machine but most of their power comes from gas (or diesel) motors that turn systems of pulleys and belts. Without grid electricity they are not beholden to the state or a corporation to provide it. This gives them some independence.
Without electricity they don’t have TV’s. TV has never been a positive technology in the western world, it harms community and it gives us constant consumer and anti-spiritual propaganda. Even if there were ’good’ programming the ‘medium is the message’, so no good can come from it. Jerry Mander explained perfectly how television only does us disservice in his book, ‘Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television.’
TV addresses people in the midst of the confusion, isolation, and passivity that it has created in their minds. These are the ideal conditions for offering the unifying leadership of strong-man politics, which usually leads to autocracy instead of democratic freedom and independence.1
TV for the western world is an intrusive technology that inhibits us as full-grown decision-making people who can (or not) think for themselves.
The Mennonites decide what to include in their world. We (The West) don’t decide what may be good or not, we just accept the next bit of technology that comes along without question. We buy the next phone when it comes out. Without thought. We allow the intrusion of technology to take precedence over free thinking decisions. Historically this started slowly as technology progressed. The allowance of the TV into our home was a huge bad decision. We have had phones for a long time and they did have a practical and efficient use to begin with though with technology there is always the danger of harm coming in dribbles with each ‘new’ development.
Possibly the first phone was part of our technological downfall but certainly when they became digital and full of ‘labor’ saving apps we just allowed our privacy to be eroded step by step. We may easily allow ourselves to sign on for a digital ID to access the ‘new’ digital financial system. If the banks have their way ‘our’ money will not be tied to any state or resource. It will be in the hands of the top global managers who are not elected into office. When we sign on for a digital ID and use the ‘new’ money our entire financial pattern will be on display for the mangers to see and manipulate. Our money will be a means to control our behaviour. We think we have control over our behaviour now but we rarely do, our behaviour is controlled by our finances connected to what is marketed and sold. Most of the time we are going through the motions set up by the corporations selling us stuff. It is very difficult (maybe impossible) to be free of this volunteer technology/marketplace culture. Because we are so enmeshed in these workings it won’t take much for us to decide it is fine to change to a new money system and allow us to be digitally identified. It will make it easier for us to do things. Like shop. And most of us will do it the same way we ushered in every new app on our phone whether it belayed our privacy or not.
Possibly this is why the Mennonites do not allow the beginnings of a technology that they see as one that can become harmful. They use a lot of technology, they are not against technology; they are just not for technology that will lead to their possible destruction.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is pushing for a technology that will combine humanity with technology, to have technology enter into our bodies. This has started with the covid vaccine technology. We don’t know yet the total manifestation of what these vaccines are doing to our bodies.
The Mennonites although paying full taxes will not accept Province supplied health care. If they use any health care they pay for it out of pocket. This keeps them partially separate from the jurisdiction of the state. They did not accept covid vaccines, and we know now that was the best decision to make. As they were not bombarded with state propaganda proclaiming the goodness and necessity of receiving a covid vaccine, it may have been an easy decision for them to make. They understand the health of people and animals as their whole life depends on it.
Trudeau’s Canada is planning for a ‘basic minimum income’ for its citizens. I am sure many people will be happy to sign on, because of the money and because they won’t be able to stand to not have what everyone else can have. Even without a ‘new’ digital money system this state money handout will allow the state to manipulate what its citizen does. This will begin slowly; likely starting with the requirement to take the vaccines the government sees fit to take. This will be under the guise of protecting everyone. (As we have seen) As with all intrusion on people’s rights there will be incremental requirements for its citizens as time goes on.
The Mennonites have stayed clear of health requirements from the state and they will stay clear of any volunteer basic income plans.
However if the banks are able to put in practice the ‘new’ money systems even Mennonites will have a difficult time if it requires one to have a digital passport to use it. Mennonites here use a lot of cash but one may also pay with a cheque. They abide by all laws so they collect taxes and make regular submissions to the government as all licensed businesses do.
The WEF along with large corporations and banks do not care what happens to its citizens and certainly not to the Mennonites.
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