Sebastian Junger
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like, how hallucinatory is it if you know that you're going to be dead in seconds?
What does the world literally look like to you?
Because we're all Dostoevsky, right?
I mean, the command of fire isn't maybe in three, five seconds.
It might be in 50 years, but we're all waiting for the right.
We're all getting the command eventually.
So what does the world look like to someone where all of that, their whole lifetime is compressed into a few seconds?
What's the world look like?
we should understand that vision of the world and incorporate it to some degree into our experience of our hopefully 50, 80, 90 years of life.
So this intense little capsule of reality.
So what did he see in those moments?
Because he wrote about it.
This is valuable information.
What's the world look like?
What's it really look like when you're about to be torn from it?
And so he said he was standing there
And he saw sunlight glinting off the steeple of a church.
And he had this amazing thought, which goes to your point, right?