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This whole show, like, I mean it's cold alone and the lesson of the show is that you can't do it like what was it was a hundred days was the longest anyone survived. Yeah.

And there was the talk about the need for a bunch of help

after the show was over, reintegrating in society because, you know,

marriages were lost relationships

were ruined like they did get the stipend for the job but just like being back in the

world was difficult after doing this for only a hundred days leaving society for a hundred days can just

ruin you as a person these people were like I've said starving to death one person lost 90

pounds I thought about that's like half an adult person losing

this much weight that it shows really how much you need other people to survive but But it also conflicts with this idea of all the like the popular shows like the you know the walking dead all this post-apocalyptic show like and I think really part of the fantasy of that is you can be away from people

you don't need people which is exactly that it's a fantasy it's not real but the

part of the show like there I think it was the last quote from one of the articles

It says I'll have moments of depression when I think about how I probably won't get to do that again and it's a contestant talking about like their time on the show and

now after their back. You're out there and your biggest worries are staying warm, finding

food, boiling water. It just But what he's actually talking about is that all the other bullshit of life is a way and what you're really focused on is just the basics of life.

And to me, what I heard was that sounds like freedom with a bunch of other people that you can share that with, share the task with, and just go about life without all this outside stuff that constantly puts us in anxious anxiety like triggers are fight and flight instincts when there should be no need for it.

When you're out there, all that actually makes sense.

You are surviving.

So freedom seemed like the wrong word, but I did understand I think what he was trying to say.

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