Amish as pets? The Amish would be left alone almost anywhere, really. They live down the road from me in fact, and no one has any quarrel with them at all, great workers in fact and never any trouble. Also their basic humanity and quiet dignity serve as a role model that others would have been wise to emulate, but it was beyond others Iron Age ‘humanity’ not to taunt and throw stones.

As far as keeping pet, and for that matter the USA keeping pets, yes, we’ve noticed some pets are far more trouble and expense, and grief, and insults, and taunts, and stones then they are worth. Almost an itinerant race of feral ankle biters we unwisely tried to help. As it happens it didn’t work out, as it happens it never worked out, perhaps never will.

But none care if it works out anymore, the village just wishes to be rid of troublemakers.

Should point out the samurai are all from the villages. Bit of an oversight, that…

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrainingThePeacefulVillagers

Some groups just want to be left alone. If you are your own heap of one, it’s easy to be at the top of it.

That only works so long as you keep the population from growing. The village way of life doesn’t scale. Nor does it survive collision with the larger world. The Amish only survive because the United States protects them. We sort of keep them like pets.

But it’s a nice fantasy.

And let’s not talk about small town politics.

raghm kuli tahdhirat “la tadhhab hunaka” ‘alqaa al’atfal bialhijarat wasarakhuu fi alkahf …
aistahza’at bihim alsukhriat wahum yamutun fi hanajirihim aistadar alnaqaniq.

tahawalat wujuh alqarawiiyn almubhijat ‘iilaa hujaru. alkahf fi kuli makan hawlahum alan.
alnihayat maratan ‘ukhraa.

khatimatu: alqarawiuwn yastaeidun qaryatahum.
lam yarghabuu abdan fi ‘ayi shay’ akhar , ealaa ‘ayi hali.

I think you missed something here, a lot of things actually.

Nice link. The same word repeated over and over.
It just never works out that way.
Perhaps the correct word is selection?

Here is what happened…

A pleasant village took in a group of desperate refugees. Their children grew up in the village, which was overshadowed by a cave surrounded by skulls.

Against all warnings of ‘Don’t go there’ the children threw stones and shouted insults into the cave…Until one day…yesterday…the cave came alive with eyes.

Their taunts dying in their throats the brats turned round. The pleasant villagers faces had turned to stone. The cave is all around them now.

The end, again.

Epilogue: The Villagers get their village back.
They never wanted anything else, anyway.

Does your tribe have what it takes to become the elite? You have to take your chance and see…

First, prove you have what it takes to get on top. Then prove you have what it takes to stay on top long enough for history to notice. Hang time. These are two distinct skill sets. These two combined are empirical Virtu. Any other definition of merit is just cheerleading and trash talk.

No elite stays on top forever. Some groups don’t stay on top for long, and many never even get there…

http://theboomerbible.com/tbb207.html

Selecting the Intelligent aka Meritocracy has given us clever test-takers who, being apple polishers and often enough cheaters, fail at every test not on paper.

The break being exactly college deferments from the Draft, aka conscription. This was not only predictable but predicted; “Decisions will be made by cowards and the fighting done by fools” was predicted for allowing college deferments from conscription. There are many kinds of fights and situations in life that require courage moral and physical beyond mere war.

This is what infects our society and all the professional managerial class top to bottom: Church, State, Business, every level.

Nor should it surprise us that shirkers often enough are frauds, that is incompetent as well.

Maybe that is the wrong question. Elon Musk was interviewed recently with respect to Spacex. One of his comments about designing rockets was that the first question on any system or component has to be — Do we really need this?

More exceptional institutions might be nice, but that would require more exceptional people … angels instead of humans. The practical answer may be fewer institutions, more narrowly focused. Hopefully doing less, but doing it much better.

Is that a bad thing?

The modern age is marked by tribal people punking non-tribal people.