#AloneAustralia is not great compared to the recent seasons of #Alonetv from the US. But I forgive it because it is actually very comparable to the American season 1: mild climate, lots of limp early dropouts, but still some really good characters.
I'm hopeful season two they'll find a harsher location and attract people that can handle it much better!

I absolutely love the tv show #alonetv. It doesn't matter what you want to find in it - it's in there. It's
- a thesis on the importance of family and society;
- a textbook on the value of risk management in achieving success;
- an essay on our ultimate reliance on the natural environment,
- an exegesis on the importance of hand hygiene,
- a demonstration of cognitive bias and prioritisation (too many beautiful log cabins!)
- a reminder that toughness doesnt' always look like you expect.

When I watch the TV show #AloneTV (available free to Aussies on SBS on Demand, start at s6), it makes me think.

- About society. Contestants like to say this is how people once lived. But it's not. They are running huge calorie deficits. Any ancestors who lived like that died. Our forebears had enough calories to feed themselves and their kids. (Those kids are born into societies that gift them the lessons, cultures, structures and tools that help them survive. Being dumped alone into the forest and relying on yourself is nothing like that.) People survive because of society.
- About the ideas people use to deal with strong feelings they get. I don't believe in souls, spirits or connecting with the earth, but I do know rationality doesn't have a good vocabulary to handle how people feel alone in the natural world.
- About strategy. Do you need such a nice hut? Or is that desire for a nice house a legacy of real world thinking?
- About turning strategy into execution. If you can do a piece to camera on how you're wasting time building such a fancy hut, why can't you stop?