The following is on the Albertain Hutterites, when asked if i could possibly live as a hutterite, and my views on them in 500 words (497 to be exact) It is quite questionable in my mind as to whether or not
anyone of any social status could move from our socialized way of life to that of the
Hutterites. It is quite obvious we enjoy a lifestyle quite different from these peoples,
it is also quite certain that many of us have come to accept technology. Accepting
technology has allowed us to live with it, and we do enjoy an amazing amount of technology
as Canadians. It is hard to even fathom life without the computer (as I write to you
now.), it affects our every day life, and where would you be without it? All in all, if my parents had stuck me in a Hutterite colony after the age of five I surely would have gone mental! And the age of five is chosen primarily due to the fact that before this, you will accept anything as being normal, if you are presented with it on a daily basis. After the age of five in a normal household, you would have experienced so many instances of spoil that the Hutterite way would be cruel. Some view the Hutterites as a primitive peoples, from a
primitive demeanor. They chose to leave the social world long ago. There is no place for
these individuals in the future, what is to become of them when they cannot branch out
anymore? There are less and less farmers in the Canadian prairies due to mechanization,
the agricultural industry simply does not yield as much profit as it used to. |