Feels really good to work out
your shit in public so thank you
Uh, I think everyone should do it a little bit more
work out your shit in public
'cause it helps, right?
Uh, I tried to move out onto a commune
um, and the commune was in rural Arkansas
And, um, uh, it was really a lovely
place that'd been there since the '70s
A thing that they don't tell you about anarchists
when you read about 'em is that they're disorganized
Um, and, uh
I did not successfully move out onto this commune
Um, in part because of that disorganization
But I did fall in love with the rural ozarks
I figured out, uh
And I figured out why
it's because it takes a little piecе of intellectual
freedom that you have been—, that wе lose
It's not fun to be from a place that has been
totally divest of social and civic services for
like, a hundred-and-fifty years, right?
It's not fun, uh, to live in a place
that got electrified in the 1950s
twenty years after the electrification projects began
right?
It's not fun to be in a place
that just now got the internet, right?
Um, but there is something that is awesome out there
And it is the fact, uh
that you become a free thinker
because you have to be, right?
If you wanna pave a road—
if you want paved roads, you gotta pave the road
If you want there to be a fire department
congratulations, you are now the fire department, right?
Uh, that kind of radical self-reliance really
rubbed off on me, I wanted it to rub off on me
Because I was raised by Spongebob
Squarepants and the Nintendo 64
I remember asking 'em, "So like, are you guys
like, uh, libertarians or anarchists? What are you?
Are you so far to the right you came out on the left?
Like, what's the deal? "
And, uh, they just are like, "It's hay season"
It's time to help everybody do their hay
Um, so
I fell in love out there too
This is a song about all that, it's called "Critterland"