Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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In our society, I mean, there are a lot of blessings here.
Let's not forget.
To live in a society where our safety and our daily survival needs are basically mechanized and taken care of and outsourced is a huge blessing, right?
I mean, you know, let's...
Let's acknowledge it.
But there are downsides even to blessings.
And one of the downsides is that people can feel very alienated because they're not needed by their group and vice versa until there's a crisis.
So the Blitz in London.
I write about this in my book, Tribe.
It shocked the authorities because they were prepared.
I mean, this is quite well known, right?
The authorities were prepared for mass psychiatric casualties when the German Air Force started bombing London and other British cities, right?
And in fact, the admissions to psych wards went down during the bombings because people had a purpose.
They had something they had to do.
They were digging people out of the rubble.
They were sleeping side by side in the tube stations.
They were doing all of these sort of urgent survival things that our human ancestors have always done.
And in circumstances like that,
there's a great relief in being able to forget about your own concerns.
Our anxiety comes from our own concern.
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