Sebastian Junger

that there's not such a proof of afterlife that why bother leading our lives, but there's also not such a doubt about it that it's psychologically devastating.

We're in this sweet spot, which allows us to sort of invest maximum meaning in the least amount of psychological distress in these decades that we're allotted.

So in a weird way, where we're at right now is to sort of tune perfectly to the human brain for giving the maximum amount of meaning to this time that we have here on Earth.

And if you go in the extreme of either direction of absolute certainty that there is an afterlife or is no afterlife, if you go to that extreme, it actually just robs us of what we do know for sure that we have, which is this life right now.

Yeah.

And the reason Karl Marx hated religion is because basically the peasant class had been told, listen, don't worry about it.

Your lot sucks, right?

Right.

The serfs like your lot sucks.

You were oppressed.

You're poor, blah, blah, blah.

But don't worry about it because there's an afterlife.

So and Marx is like there'll never be revolution as long as people think that once they die, everything gets nice.

Right.

Right.

Right.

And so that's that's why the Marx hated religion.

And it's a totally legitimate point.

Right.

And the version of religion that he was rebelling against is like, look, the meek shall inherit the earth.