text:  it's really uh that that was always the way and and to understand that that sort of dichotomy you got to go back thousands of years really to where this holiday was born and the holiday was born from the winter solstice it's always been a winter solstice event a time when it's the shortest day the longest night the oncoming winter it's going to be cold and dark and dangerous and so what do we do when we're faced with you know looking down the barrel of that gun