Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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When they got back to Vicenza, Italy, after the partying that you can imagine happened after that phase, most of them wanted to go back to Restoppo, to the outpost.
They missed it.
They didn't fit in anymore.
And what they missed was each other.
They missed being in a close circumstance where they were dependent on each other for their lives.
And that is, you know, as an anthropologist, former anthropologist, that's basically our evolutionary past.
And it resonated very deeply with them.
And they were very confused.
Like, what's wrong with me?
Why would I want to go back to that place?
But I do.
And my book, Tribe, is about the sort of anthropological reality that produces that kind of reaction.
But you know what I would say is the adrenaline junkie thing is a little overstated.
I mean, you can skydive.
You can rock climb.
There's lots of ways of getting adrenaline in this.
um but those are all quite uh sort of self-serving or enterprises right there for you right i'm going to skydive but the thing about the military the thing about being in combat is when you're in combat you don't feel like you're there for yourself you feel like you're there for everybody else right and that's sort of that brotherhood uh
is that actually the end of the day, I think that is what's intoxicating.
I think that's what pulls up our sort of evolutionary past.
And I think you could, maybe you could say it's addictive, but it's certainly something that once you acquire it, it's hard to let go of.
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