I thought the prologue was a little far fetched. When i was in high school in Alabama, i worked at a hamburger place and we were def not that stupid. In fact, that same situation happened to us a couple times. When the cash registers went out, we just got some paper and did it ourselves. Sure the customers would be in the drive-thru for a while, but at least they got food.
In chapter one, i can relate a lot to the traffic jam experience. When i moved to Tallahassee at 17, it was my first time living in a city with 3-lane roads. I thought Tennessee Street was real intimidating, but now i just laugh about it.
The Amish loopholes were pretty funny. They can't own cars, but they can lease them. They can't have phones in the house, but they can outside. This just goes to show that technology is slowly infiltrating into every culture on earth. Who knows, maybe in a few years some African tribe near the Nile River with have their own PDA's and cell phones.
It is pretty ironic how Eric met Mary. This book is probably going to get into all about how technology is bad and we should use it less....but this couple would have never met had it not been for technology.
The last main segment of Ch 1 is the couple preparing for the 18 month fieldwork. Right here and now, i think this book is going to be about a couple hippies that are clueless. They will probably go live without technology and then try to tell us (the reader) that we should do the same. The fact is, i do like technology and don't like hippies. So, I hope that i will be able to take something away from this book when i am finished.
2 comments:
I agree that the author may have overlooked technology as cupid's arrow and its interesting to put it that way. I agree that the book may have some far fetched ideas but the principal i think is a liable concern. The fast food restaurant was just an incident that reinforced the idea of how people prefer technology as a means of automation and not as a tool. I think hes got a good thing going.
I agree about the loopholes - and think that many of these loopholes are why the Minimites in this book have chosen to move to this settlement that seems a lot more strict than the Lancaster settlement.
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