Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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So there are rock drawings of one guy bristling with arrows and 10 men standing around him with their bows.
Right, clearly an execution by the men of a group of the theory as an abusive leader.
The other sort of crime that survival communities are constantly on the lookout for is free riders, people that really aren't contributing to the...
to the pot, to survival, and they're taking more than their share of the chestnuts or the meat or whatever.
But we live in societies where leaders can be very abusive, can think they're above the law, that they're beyond the reach of ordinary justice, and enrich themselves.
So I sort of understand the mentality.
I mean, it's destructive at both sides.
I can understand people saying, you know what?
Look what he's doing, right?
I'm going to jail because I stole $100 sneakers.
He ripped off the government for 500 million, and he's fine.
So I think part of the problems of freeloading, which is real in our society, and it's very damaging to the freeloaders psychologically, emotionally, super destructive to them, right?
Terrible for their self-esteem.
But part of the problem is that we have sometimes leaders in our governments that are clearly corrupt and unethical and self-serving.
Yeah, I mean, look, we're way out on a limb here with this individuality.
I mean, humans have never survived as individuals.
It's not possible, right?
You take someone, you put them down in the wilderness by themselves, they die almost immediately.
And so within Western society, none of us are surviving without the supply chain, right?
Without, you know, lots of other people to do the stuff that we need done to survive while we're doing one thing that we're good at that other people need to survive.
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