Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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Because if I'm not, I'm screwed, right?
So is my group safe in the world?
Am I safe in the group?
And are my children safe with me?
And duty, this discharging of duty to the individual and from the society and to the society is at the core of answering those three questions in the affirmative.
And so when I say to people in this country, what's your duty to the country?
Like, no one has an answer, right?
And I think we're probably the first society in history, I mean, modern Western society, where people don't have a ready answer for that very obvious and ancient human question.
I think you go back 1,000 years, 5,000 years, you ask a Native American in 1750, what's your duty to the Iroquois, your tribe?
They'd be like, are you kidding?
I mean, my duty doesn't end.
It's just, I wouldn't be alive without them.
I protect them.
I do this.
I do that.
It would be very obvious.
We can't answer that question.
I think until we can, all of us individually will feel unsatisfied and
in some ways fearful because we don't have a safe place in the world.
Yeah, I mean, Western society, it's a mass society.
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