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A Third Way: What We Can Learn From the Amish Approach to Tech (Institute for Family Studies)

Thomas Sowell cuts through the two extremes here: “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” If we are to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves, we must follow his advice. The dangers of both credulous embrace and reactionary rejection of new technology raise the need for a third way. And despite their caricature as eschewers of all innovation, Amish communities approach technology in precisely the way Sowell suggests.”

Read the rest of my piece at https://ifstudies.org/blog/a-third-way-what-we-can-learn-from-the-amish-approach-to-tech