I think this was from a few weeks ago now. I was watching an interview with Herzog. I think my favorite film I have seen from him was A Year in the Taiga, about life in rural Russia. Some overlaps in culture with rural Alaska where I live. I have done some subsistence hunting, but I cannot say it has ever been my full time life style.

Where as Herzog puts an emphasis on doing everything outside of the computer, I don’t have this same kind of Luddite view. I do like going back and forth, and I value all of my experience I have gained in nature. Love him or hate him, Herzog is a man of experience who lived very fully.

The grizzly man picture also sticks in my head. Where as the man in the film depicted himself as breaking free from the system.,.and protecting the bears. 1st nations people from the area thought what he was doing was disrespectful to the bears. Anyone from Alaska I knew thought it woudn’t be a good idea to set up a tent where he did on Kodiak island. It would be like pitching a tent in someone else’s living room and declaring “I’m one of you now!” If someone did that in my house I would ask him to leave, and if he didn’t…well I could empathize with the bears anyways.