Brian I watched a program on the Amish communities in the USA. I am sorry to disagree but the picture painted was far from rosy. They came across as weird ignorant and almost obsessive about their values to the point of utter hypocracy. They banish people who they see as sinners yet send their kids out to experience the outside world get drunk and take drugs before returning to their life of abstinance. One guy an ex Amish was trying to help those Amish who were banished. Sadly these people were so indoctrinated that they felt they had no future and were worthless. Even the society he was trying to create were so steeped in the rituals they could not cope with the conflictions between them and their ex community.