Have you seen this?
Apparently, 2,000 members of the Pennsylvania Amish community have spent the last six months rebuilding the homes, businesses, and bridges of Chimney Rock, North Carolina—all without fanfare, media coverage, or government contracts.
No red tape. No billion-dollar budgets. No virtue-signaling press conferences.
Just people helping their fellowman.
Imagine that: a private community of humble craftsmen doing more to restore a town than FEMA, HUD, or any alphabet soup agency ever could.
It’s almost like when people are free to organize themselves voluntarily, things get done better, cheaper, and with a whole lot more dignity.
This story should have been front-page news across the nation, but of course it wasn’t.
That’s because it doesn’t fit the mainstream narrative.
We’re told that without government, communities would fall apart. That without bureaucracy, no one would build roads. That without the state, no one would care for the poor or displaced. But here’s a real-life example that completely dismantles that lie.
These good men and women (and children!) didn’t wait for permission or lobby politicians. They saw a need—and they met it.
This is exactly the kind of principled thinking we’re trying to instill in the next generation.
We actually touch on it in The Tuttle Twins and the Fate of the Future.
In it, Ethan and Emily learn about two competing systems: one built on coercion and control, and another rooted in cooperation and persuasion. The future, they discover, depends on which system we choose to embrace.
The Amish didn’t choose coercion. They chose compassion. And look at all the lives they’ve blessed because of it.
Our books teach kids this important truth: real change happens, not in Washington, D.C., but in communities, families, and among individuals who are willing to roll up their sleeves and solve problems themselves.
They’ll learn about mutual aid, spontaneous order, free markets, and voluntaryism—big ideas that, frankly, too many adults today never encountered growing up.
That’s why these stories are so powerful.
Sure they’re educational, but they’re more than that. They equip kids with the foundational principles they’ll need to be the kind of people who, one day, might quietly rebuild a broken town.
If that sounds like the kind of values you want your children and grandchildren to grow up with, now is the time to get to know the resources that can help make it happen.
Check out the Tuttle Twins collection now!
Oh, and three cheers for the Amish for so beautifully answering the age-old question:
“But without government, who would build the roads?”
Boom!
This is how we are meant to live. This is the world I want for my kids.
This story motivates me to learn new skills that make me an asset in as many ways as possible to the people I might one day have the opportunity to serve.
How about you?
— Connor
