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"