Maybe the Little Things and Little People Matter
On Friday night we took a Northern Lights Tour out of Fairbanks, Alaska, from 10 pm to 5 am, in a white Ford panel van on a snowy road into the wilderness. The Northern Lights were amazing, but didn’t really get started till 1 am. All of the five women on the tour went with someone. Three of the four men on the tour went solo.
I have noticed also, when I take my regular daily hill walk in North Seattle, that almost all the women I encounter are out walking with a woman friend.
I’m sure that women do this not because they are afraid but because there is something deep inside that prompts them to be with someone when out in the world.
SF writer Sarah Hoyt is on a parallel track when she talks about “Coming to Ourselves” waking from the dream of the long 20th century. She references a Substack piece “American Strong Gods, Trump and the end of the Long Twentieth Century” by N.S. Lyons. For the last century, the world has been “tied up in a regulatory, credential enforcing, bureaucratic state.” World War II was the excuse.
To prevent the resurgence of war, we were told we needed to do away with nationalism and religion and — really ultimately — the family and all natural connections.
And yet, women still like to go about in pairs when outside the house. And lower-class people still identify with their ethnic group, and the middle class still identifies with their nation, and the educated class identifies with the whole planet.
Meanwhile in the developed world, from the
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