Great article. I’m going to slightly pushback on the Hudderite community just from my experiences growing up near one… Religiously it was quite oppressive, and extremely patriarchal. They are also some of the biggest for profit land owners in the community I grew up in as well. They practiced heavy industrial farming, even though they we…
Great article. I’m going to slightly pushback on the Hudderite community just from my experiences growing up near one… Religiously it was quite oppressive, and extremely patriarchal. They are also some of the biggest for profit land owners in the community I grew up in as well. They practiced heavy industrial farming, even though they were supposedly against technology. They also would drive some of the fanciest automobiles in town, but would have the radio taken out of it, as if that was the technological problem. Anyway, Just some of my experiences.
I don’t disagree. Thanks for the insight. I saw them from a child’s point of view, playing with Hutterite children through hay bail mazes and enjoying their baked goods. Like other patriarchal religions they have inherited their biblical prejudices, and I wouldn’t want to excuse them, or any other ways in which they are not being a good example, such as their misuse of the land. But as an example of the resilience of a co-operative community over a long period of time they have done remarkably well, and show that at least that is possible, despite their other faults.
Great article. I’m going to slightly pushback on the Hudderite community just from my experiences growing up near one… Religiously it was quite oppressive, and extremely patriarchal. They are also some of the biggest for profit land owners in the community I grew up in as well. They practiced heavy industrial farming, even though they were supposedly against technology. They also would drive some of the fanciest automobiles in town, but would have the radio taken out of it, as if that was the technological problem. Anyway, Just some of my experiences.
I don’t disagree. Thanks for the insight. I saw them from a child’s point of view, playing with Hutterite children through hay bail mazes and enjoying their baked goods. Like other patriarchal religions they have inherited their biblical prejudices, and I wouldn’t want to excuse them, or any other ways in which they are not being a good example, such as their misuse of the land. But as an example of the resilience of a co-operative community over a long period of time they have done remarkably well, and show that at least that is possible, despite their other faults.