Thursday, June 13, 2013

THE AMISH: NOT AS DUMB AS YOU THOUGHT


that he he he sound you hear is, in fact laughter
 
and yes they are laughing at you
 
it seems that the amish - a group that lives a very simple life
 
is, yes, out of touch and so, way ahead of the game
 
take a drive through the rolling hills of holmes county
 
- a small farming community 80 miles south of cleveland
 
you won't see kids with their noses pointed down at a phone
 
or even with 'em in their ears - they ain't got cell phones
 
they ain't got email either and they ain't got NSA problems
 
neither
 
they don't even know what the NSA is for that matter
 
what they got truly delights the senses
 
smells of farm freshness and sawmill resins mingling with
 
the limestone dust rising from the roads - no asphalt either
 
turn off your phone and just take a look around
 
amish farmers work the fields with horse-drawn plows
 
while their beef cattle, milk cows and other tasty critters
 
lazily graze nearby in lush green pastures
 
the women tend to laundry on sagging clotheslines
 
as their youngins and toddlers play with wooden toys
 
weaving around their slowly moving horse-drawn buggies
 
- a visitor might miss the fact of the matter, that the folks
 
around here use a technology most people only dream about
 
these people are using their brains and not gizmos
 
that's technology that the government can steal
 
no, their phones aren't tapped
 
their emails are safe from big brother
 
and they never send photos of their genitalia
 
that's cuz they ain't got those new fangled gadgets
 
so, this isn't a perfect life
 
however, there's no fear of big government sneaking around
 
 
now, they only gotta learn how to grow a freakin' mustache