The Amish are a testament to how much we all need each other. Society as a whole benefits from having a reserve of people who have kept old traditions, crops and methods. And faith. Yet despite their self-sustaining independent lifestyle, a moment's thought reveals that they would be overrun by the tools of modern war in a Soviet or Khmer Rouge purge: they need the society that protects them too.

Plus they can give us patriotic popcorn!