Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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Yeah, I mean, he clearly had struggles as well.
But that, I mean...
that isolation can tip the balance on someone who's already struggling.
Then you take Kurt Cobain and you put him in the infantry and send him to Afghanistan.
Whatever the downsides of that are, they're easy to list, right?
The upside is that you don't have room to be lonely.
You don't have room to be selfish.
You don't have room to be depressed.
Like, no one commits suicide in Afghanistan.
Some do when they come back.
right uh but one of the theories is that they do that because they've lost the community right it's not the result of trauma it's the result of a loss of connection but over there it never happens because you know however much you're struggling everyone needs you it's like the grandparents in sarajevo i'm needed i'm not going anywhere
No, I mean, it sort of lasted as long as it needed to until we got to a place where we, again, felt safe in our homes.
So just because we were fighting in Afghanistan doesn't mean that people back in this country were like, -"Oh, my God, they're coming for us."
Right?
In the days and weeks afterwards, we did feel that way.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
And there was a collective taking of responsibility in New York
That was really quite amazing to see.
I remember walking down the street.
It was maybe a week later.
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