Yeah, I mean everything's infinitely nuanced, you know, everything's infinitely complicated.

And we, as human beings, just try to reduce everything down to its simplest so we can hold it in our brain.

That's what the culture war serves to do is to provide that filter for ourselves and

simplify it down to where we don't really have to think about it. We don't have to think about

things that make us uneasy, you know? You can relax into fundamentalist concepts about anything exactly I was obsessed with

secrecy in that place then I came home and they had just like it was now the county

water supply it was gone as as a as a as what I loved and was trying to keep secret was completely

gone. It had no advocates. Had no constituency. No constituency.

Yeah, I just remember my big worry that whole trip was like that rental van that

minivan that we got at the Fairbanks Airport yeah sign a thing especially that

said we would not go north of the Arctic Circle.

I got you.

We wouldn't go on that highway.

And that's where we're going.

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