Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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Right.
I mean, what I would say is that there are people that didn't have kids that decided to devote their life to the poor in Tanzania or whatever.
You know, it's like God bless them.
Right.
I mean, they found their they found their duty to the human race.
Right.
If you're not doing that, I think there are people that fall into despair because they're they don't know what they're serving.
Right.
And so, you know, I just wrote an article on on my sub stack.
And it's about disconnection, right?
I wrote a piece called Breathe With Me, and then I wrote a piece about its opposite, right?
And what I found was that, and this has been in the papers and stuff, the size of the average American home has grown, it's doubled in my lifetime.
And what they found was that the bigger the home, the more likely the people were that lived there to be depressed.
And that great empty spaces in a house, which is all the trend right now, were correlated with depression.
In 1900, 98% of homes had more than one occupant.
right apartments houses whatever more than one occupant sometimes strangers slept in the same bed right i mean there are boarding houses and sort of rough places for working men where they sort of were crowded into camps and stuff it was a better time yeah right uh um so people live collectively right and now one-third of american homes are occupied by a single person and another third are occupied by a childless couple or a single parent
Right?
The piece is called The Great Abandonment.
And that's the tragedy of, in some ways, the tragedy of affluence has allowed us to live far apart from each other.
And the consequences, particularly for children, are devastating.
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