Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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I don't have anything to do with you, right?
So there is a little bit of that deal offered in this country, which I think is extraordinary.
My father was an immigrant.
He came here during World War II, right?
I think, yeah.
I mean, I think the ability of social media and the algorithms that drive people's opinion towards greater and greater extremes is tremendously dangerous.
And we were talking before, you saw my flip phone.
I have a flip phone because, frankly, I think smartphones are dangerous.
They're dangerous like handguns are dangerous, right?
Just like they're easy to misuse.
They're miracles.
They're important in some moments like handguns, but they're also very, very dangerous.
And so I just want nothing to do with them.
But I...
So I think that's part of what's been happening in Western society and in the United States recently.
But what I would say, I sort of never finished this thought, but you can conceive of a greater identity than your natural political affiliation.
You could say, I'm a Democrat.
But after 9-11, we were attacked and we had to band together and those differences stopped mattering for a while.
And there is a way to do it.
And I'll just, if I could, give you a quick anecdote about someone that did that in the moment.
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