Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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And during those terrible years of the war, you know, in the cemeteries, you see the gravestones, they're all young people, because they were out, they were getting water, they were getting food, they were working, they were socializing, a mortar would come in.
It was more likely to kill young people than old people who stayed home, right?
And the old people were needed at home.
As soon as the war ended, you started seeing gravestones for older people, people in their 60s, 70s, 80s.
Basically, the war ended, they weren't needed anymore, and they didn't need to stay alive any longer, and they died.
They were not needed.
And very different from suicide, right?
This is just, they hung on long enough to be of service, and then when they weren't of service anymore, the war ended and conditions improved.
What it seemed to me from the gravestones was that they checked out.
They're like, okay, I got my family across the finish line.
I'm good, right?
And the danger, but the danger of having an entire generation, an entire community, an entire nation not be needed is that's new territory for the human race.
Like, no one knows how that will go, but I have my doubts it'll go.
No.
I mean, listen, our wiring, our neurological wiring, our emotional and psychological wiring is from the Stone Age.
I mean, we have not changed at all in 20,000 years, right?
I mean, we are adapted to living in groups of 50, 100, 150 people maximum.
uh fighting and hunting fighting for our survival and hunting and being totally interdependent in a group and getting our meaning from that that's it that's what we are right and um modern society hasn't changed that at all you know clearly the amount of disaffiliation from the group that we've already experienced is taking is hard on our mental health when we're just not needed at all um
I mean, I think that's when despair will come in.
I mean, that's when the sort of big questions of what is life for?
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