Sebastian Junger

when he was in his 20s.

I mean, what a sadistic thing to do to a young person or anybody, right?

So he was a radical, you know, like he and his sort of like radical friends would sit around talking about outrageous stuff like liberating the serfs and crazy ideas like that.

And this is in the 1840s.

And so Czar Nicholas I, you know, he didn't take that kind of thing kindly.

And the police arrested them all, like six of them.

threw him in jail.

It wasn't a particularly serious crime, right?

But threw him in jail.

It's czarist Russia, right?

It's an oppressor state, right?

And after eight months, they finally released them.

And these young men assumed that they were going to be like put in a wagon and driven to the courthouse and discharged and returned to their families after eight horrible months, right?

Like, okay, they're put in a wagon and they're driven to a city square

They only had minutes to adjust to this.

Instead of being released, they were tied to posts and a firing squad was lined up in front of them.

And the order was given to the soldiers, charge your rifles, ready, aim.

And at that moment, a rider galloped into the square and said, the czar forgives them.

OK, so what?

So, you know, the question my question would be like, what does the world look like?