Sebastian Junger

Like, okay, they're put in a wagon and they're driven to a city square

They only had minutes to adjust to this.

Instead of being released, they were tied to posts and a firing squad was lined up in front of them.

And the order was given to the soldiers, charge your rifles, ready, aim.

And at that moment, a rider galloped into the square and said, the czar forgives them.

OK, so what?

So, you know, the question my question would be like, what does the world look like?

Like, how hallucinatory is it if you know that you're going to be dead in seconds?

What does the world literally look like to you?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because we're all Dostoevsky, right?

I mean, the command of fire isn't maybe in three, five seconds.

It might be in 50 years, but we're all waiting for the right.

We're all getting the command eventually.

So what does the world look like to someone where all of that, their whole lifetime is compressed into a few seconds?

What's the world look like?

we should understand that vision of the world and incorporate it to some degree into our experience of our hopefully 50, 80, 90 years of life.

So this intense little capsule of reality.

So what did he see in those moments?