You have nothing to fear, nor does anyone else, if...

The if is simple. If others don't try to hurt me or any one I love. Love is one of those concepts that evolution and logic really are unable to explain. I can't either. I have five children and another on the way. I really mean this when I say that I would break laws and hurt people if they hurt my children. I would probably become the devil incarnate. I think many good parents would.

I have come to believe in a concept of family heritage and immutable laws that govern such. The idea is still undefined in my mind so I won't expound on it yet. The Scandinavian people had a similar idea called Volk or Folk. I am not real familiar with their concept yet. The Nazis adopted some sort of Volkish ideas and took it to a distorted and perverted conclusion. They also violated some Volkish principles. I am not of the Nazi camp. I hate nazism. The unibomber should be hung, stoned or beheaded for his crimes. Keeping him alive allows him to make dangerous disciples.

I think all races have a Volk concept. When distorted beyond the family unit it becomes dangerous. My loyalties go no farther than my family and my morality.

Living in such close proximity with Athabascans has revealed the volkish ideas. They have an aboriginal instinct for such. It is the glue that holds their crumbling society together. When they lose it they will no longer be athabascans, but Americans.

When I moved to Alaska I went into a culture shock. It jarred my mind free from many of the silly urban delusions I grew up with. Lower forty eighters, as we call them up here, have been urbanized so much that they really have lost touch with reality. That is why we see so much diversity of nonsence here at truth tree. Put some of these people in the bogs of central Alaska for a week with no shoes and a stone bladed knife and you will either find them dead a few days later, or a very changed person. That nonsense "survival series" is just that, nonsense. real survival, interacting with nature doesn't have cameras and film crews hanging around all day.

I remember the night when we were in the cabin(unfinished) and it was getting real cold. My children were bundled in blankets and shivering in their sleep. My wife dosed off. I stayed up all night. I didn't think we would live through the night. I thought we were all going to freeze to death together. We survived and we are beginning to prosper, but the process has changed me. Suffering does that, gives a clearer perspective. I also almost wet my pants when the grizzly bear tried to eat my puppies and come inside to visit. I am glad I had a mean dog and a big gun. He respected the gun, but ignored me.

I don't know if it is possible to comprehend life and it's issues fully in an urban mind. Maybe it is. It wasn't for me.

Is this food for thought?

Lilly, or Lilith brought up the abuse and rape stats on Alaska. She is probably right. There are some really dangerous guys living here. They all flee the lower forty eight to come up here. They all get discovered at the border, but if the state they did their crimes in doesn't extradite them they are allowed to stay. So they come on up and repeat their crimes. It is hard to catch some because they can hide very easily. Another reason is that out in the woods there is only the law that you yourself make. When the cops aren't around there are no rules. These violent criminals are their own gods in their hunting grounds.