Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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And I think we need to really reorient society so that the phones and that way of thinking is not the focal point of every single person for almost all of their waking hours.
I mean, it's a moonshot, right?
We can do it, but we have to think about, I think there should be courses in grade school, middle school, high school, college, about how to use social media and technology safely and how to protect yourself from it.
I mean, you need to take classes to drive a car.
You really should have, as a young person, take classes in order to have a smartphone, just to protect you and your generation.
I think there probably are ways to design buildings and communities that are more inward-facing and encourage group connection.
I think there should be a sort of public awareness campaign of this, as there was with smoking and drunk driving and all these other ills, of the damaging effects of alienation.
Like, I mean, I think you can really raise the public consciousness.
And when you do, people will act in more affiliated ways.
Like, they're capable of it, and they're all dying to.
That's the tragic thing, is that everyone's waiting to be, like, called, to be needed, to serve, right?
And I think national service in this country, like, mandatory national service, not the draft, not, you know,
I mean, national service with a military option, if that's your scene, right?
But national service for young people, I think would be incredibly good for them.
I mean, I'm going to be simplistic and sort of facile here, but I'm going to say, you know, having children is an act of belief in the future.
And if people have less children, I think on some level,
Like, future?
Is there really a future?
Right?
I mean, you know, we're armed to the teeth with nukes.
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