As another brit but having worked in the oilfield, I went through similar. At first, I really couldn't understand my colleagues when they recounted things such as having to database and number their gun collections because "you know, one day you get up and feel like an uzi, next day, it might be a shotgun and I couldn't find the mutherfuckers" but learning about the history of the financial system through bitcoin deep dives, followed by watching the creeping tyranny in europe, I think I agree