Sebastian Junger is the author of The Perfect Storm, War, Tribe, Freedom, and most recently In My Time of Dying: How I came face to face with the idea of an afterlife.
We discuss…
* Sebastian’s literary heroes
* Sebastian’s literary motivations
* The state of Sebastian’s “tribal health.”
* The wealthier the neighborhood, the weaker the community?
* How big spaces pull us apart—as discussed in Sebastian’s recent essay, “The Great Abandonment.”
* The virtues of stoicism
* American Psychological Association on traditional masculinity: “The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity—marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression—is, on the whole, harmful.”
* What’s a definition of what manhood is (existentially speaking)?
* Sebastian’s viral Substack post: Young Men and How the Democrats Lost Them
* Harvard Professor pushed out for using words like male and female.
* Fighting words and uplifting voices from Democrats: Talarico on Colbert & Jon Ossoff
* Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on Ezra Klein
* Voting, jury duty, and giving blood: symbolic gestures of national connection
* I propose some radical ideas to simulate tribal dynamics in a more populous, peacetime world.
* Sebastian’s NDE (Near Death Experience) which led him down a scientific journey to understand the un-understandable
* I turn on the hot lights and ask Sebastian: are NDE visions a product of biology or a consciousness that’s not entirely contained in the brain?
* How Sebastian explains death and the afterlife to his children.
* Sebatian recommends:
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