 I've been noticing a lot of people use COVID to isolate themselves, and I think I've done that too. But I was really comfortable during those early months of COVID. I was like reading a book a day. Like those are good times. And I think my natural internal direction is towards more solitude than is good for me. I have to work against my own nature to be more social, to make more commitments with other people, to get together with a group or the minion. On the own, I tend to isolate. And so life is a whole series of challenges it seems to me. And we use these challenges and we react to these challenges in light of our own predispositions. So many people use things like COVID to isolate. Other people use difficult times to eat excess amount of ice cream or to do drugs or to watch pornography. Life is a series of challenges and stimuli. But we use these stimuli and challenges in directions to which we are predisposed. And so life quickly brings out our maladaptive reactions. And then the actions become habits. And often what starts out as adaptive becomes maladaptive and starts to strangle us. So solitude is great. Loneliness sucks. The more scary the world seems to people, the more likely they are to withdraw. The more ill it is, people feel more likely they are to withdraw. So when people are kind of a mess inside or a mess in their bodies, then they tend to retreat from the world and from interaction with others, which tends to make problems worse. So the great reset, right, that's where global elites are supposedly using COVID to institute socialism and take away our basic human rights. That's a talking point on the right. Well, it comes from Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's recent staff, who said, we never let a crisis go to waste. I don't think we, as people, you know, let anything go to waste. We just tend to use things in life to send us along paths that we are naturally disposed towards. No woman, no song, no cry, no podcast, no book, no ideology, no religion, no culture, no work of art. It's going to send you in a direction you don't want to go. Very long, or for very deep. So some people sometimes ruin their lives over a book such as Kevin McDonald's Culture of Critique. But Kevin McDonald's book isn't the real issue here. The real issue is that some people just have a strong self-destructive urge. And it just so happened that they used Kevin McDonald's Culture of Critique as the bomb with which they wanted to, which they couldn't help blow up their lives. Now, I don't think people usually deliberately choose to blow up their lives. But the self-destructive compulsions, I think, are active in all of this to varying degrees, which is why God says in Deuteronomy, I put before you this day a choice between life and death. Choose life. Because the human tendency towards death is usually present just to varying degrees. And so it's a lot easier to choose life if you are connected with people, if you love people, if you care about people, if you have a community that you're dedicated to, if you have specific people that you believe in, want to help, want to be around, bereft of that sort of human connection, then I notice I go haywire. I start acting weird, and the more weird I act, the worse I feel, the more isolated I get, which is a viciously reinforcing cycle, downward spiral. Until, luckily, I've had friends who've family said, oh, mate, hang on here. You're not headed in a good direction.