Sebastian Junger

Because you never know.

So who do you want to be in the world?

And hopefully day after day, you're that person.

And then you don't have to die at the end.

Like what a beautiful way to live.

And that's so it sort of changed me in that sense.

I saw after I finished the book, I read a story about Dostoevsky, the great Russian writer who suffered a mock execution.

when he was in his 20s.

I mean, what a sadistic thing to do to a young person or anybody, right?

So he was a radical, you know, like he and his sort of like radical friends would sit around talking about outrageous stuff like liberating the serfs and crazy ideas like that.

And this is in the 1840s.

And so Czar Nicholas I, you know, he didn't take that kind of thing kindly.

And the police arrested them all, like six of them.

threw him in jail.

It wasn't a particularly serious crime, right?

But threw him in jail.

It's czarist Russia, right?

It's an oppressor state, right?

And after eight months, they finally released them.

And these young men assumed that they were going to be like put in a wagon and driven to the courthouse and discharged and returned to their families after eight horrible months, right?