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I am realizing only now as we're talking and I did not have this thought while reading these

articles or or watching the documentary that of course what saved them was the fact that, I mean the fact that they were on an island

was really helpful and that there were no like geological surveys that showed that there was

gold under their island.

100% or a huge deposit of oil or something like that because obviously if you're a

single missionary and you go there you're going to get killed but if someone wants to

take over that island it wouldn't be that hard and if those people had been in the

Sierra Nevada mountains instead of on that island next to India,

there's nothing special about those people.

They would have just been wiped out by settlers who wanted what was under their feet.

They just got lucky to not have anything,

particularly enticing under their feet,

or at least not that people knew about.

Yeah, and that's probably done wonders for them. The way that we look at them is also, you know,

this says more about us obviously than it does about them at all, that people are kind of

of obsessed and fascinated with them for choosing to not interact with the rest of the world.

They also, like some of the sentiments of that, of those conversations have been about, well, aren't they lucky to not live in our world of technology,

which is now causing depression and anxiety, and aren't they lucky to not live in a world where they know about the latest conflicts and horrific acts of hate crimes and you know I mean on on on right I think that people kind of

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