Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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It's clear that our society, for all of its wonderful benefit, it's clear that our society is not providing enough human connection to keep people happy.
We're way out on a limb here with this individuality.
I mean, humans have never survived as individuals.
It's not possible.
You take someone, you put them down in the wilderness by themselves, they die almost immediately.
As a species, we are social primates, and we owe our lives to the group, and we have to participate.
We have a duty to the group in order to stay alive.
That's what being human means.
If you can simultaneously understand that you are part of a community of humans, you're lucky to be so, what do you owe them?
Because the more you give them, the happier you will be.
The more affluent a society, the higher the levels generally of anxiety, depression, suicide, addiction,
I grew up in Boston.
I moved to New York in my 30s.
I was a freelance war reporter for many years.
I also wrote a number of books.
My first one was a bestseller, The Perfect Storm.
But as soon as that came out, I went back overseas and I covered the civil wars in West Africa.
I was in Afghanistan in 1996, and then again in 2000 with Massoud, and then later with American forces.
Eventually I had the great good fortune to work with a British photographer named Tim Hetherington.
And he and I shot and directed and produced a documentary together called Restrepo about an outpost in Afghanistan that we were at off and on for a year.
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