Tool of the Statists and the Revolutionaries

Bestselling author and journalist Sebastian Junger discusses attacks on American democracy, and the fight to protect a free country from enemies both foreign and domestic https://t.co/jVcvAPQOFc pic.twitter.com/Vy7Spk0OP9

— CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 (@CBSSunday) July 4, 2021

Alas, More Revelations

Is Junger a ticket taker? Or a true believer who is being promoted because he is an ally? Regardless, what could he possibly have to say about "liberty" or "freedom" when he thinks we live in a "free democracy" and that Trump represents fascism?

.@mehdirhasan asks @sebastianjunger about his “view of the state of freedom in America today.”
Watch the best-selling author’s answer here: pic.twitter.com/43DM75e9TH

— The Mehdi Hasan Show (@MehdiHasanShow) May 27, 2021

⚡️NEW POD. EP116: @SebastianJunger. FREEDOM. The Iconic Author On His Must-Read New Book, #MemorialDay, Losing His Friend in Combat, Walking Across America, Almost Dying, Biden, the Soul of America, Smoking Cigarettes & Getting Shot At. #StayVigilant: https://t.co/pbEuK1FgXd.🎙🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/yfMc73TGBe

— 🎙Independent Americans (@indy_americans) May 27, 2021

The same could be said of the scouting movement, which has become subordinate to statism and the ruling ideologies of the age. Will scouting ever be a means for building up masculinity and real political virtue? I don't think so.

‘Volunteering makes you feel great, widens your circle of friends and gives you the skills and experience you might need for that first job, promotion or career change.’

Chief Scout @BearGrylls on why volunteering at Scouts is #GoodForYou ⬇️https://t.co/hnAKvZNiIp

— Scouts (@scouts) May 27, 2021

Sebastian Junger on American Warrior Radio

Podcast of our chat with multiple best selling author Sebastian Junger now posted. His latest work "Freedom" is very thought provoking - I highly recommend it! https://t.co/mHBpI4tR9E @sebastianjunger pic.twitter.com/vMmKWF5MLI

— American Warrior Radio (@warriorradiotuc) May 25, 2021

Sebastian Junger Interview

I’ve wanted to interview @sebastianjunger for a longtime. It was worth the wait. https://t.co/eGy6rGZavW

— chaps (@UncleChaps) May 25, 2021

This is a more questionable association.

Join me in conversation with John Heubusch & Gen. Stanley McChrystal tomorrow afternoon: https://t.co/7pQtPS2xZF pic.twitter.com/AdRhhY6tac

— Sebastian Junger (@sebastianjunger) May 25, 2021

Sebastian Junger Being Pious?

accepting his father's POV regarding the Spanish Civil War? Was his father a Communist? Junger may have some good things to say about being part of a tribe, but here he just parrots the revolutionary narrative about the Spanish Civil War and "fascism," and TIME is glad to publish it in their war against Red Americans.

"Even longtime democracies like America are vulnerable to fascist takeovers because fascists tend to threaten civil war when they lose elections, and democracies will do almost anything to avoid civil war."https://t.co/nFN1vCId7P

— Sebastian Junger (@sebastianjunger) May 20, 2021

A reminder of what the revolutionaries are currently attempting in Spain:

Stanley Payne on Spain’s Law of Historical and Democratic Memory, “the most dramatic, arbitrary, and punitive proposal concerning discussions of history anywhere in the Western world”https://t.co/YbojbJAyTk

— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) May 19, 2021

Sebastian Junger on the Tension Between Individualism and Dependence

Bestselling author @sebastianjunger examines the tension between individualism and dependence that lies at the heart of what it means to be human. He joins @MattGallagher0 via livestream to share what he has learned. https://t.co/4HHMTNHnqO

— Town Hall Seattle (@THSEA) May 17, 2021

Feedom

“It’s freedom from oppression that you have a right to; it’s not freedom from obligation.”
— Sebastian Junger (@sebastianjunger)

Listen to my full interview with Sebastian: https://t.co/Ff2xPN5L8P pic.twitter.com/IsGMeQCM1G

— Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) May 12, 2021

We walked 400 miles, and most nights we were the only people who knew where we were. There are many definitions of freedom, but surely that’s one of them.https://t.co/k6hpKW23Do

— Sebastian Junger (@sebastianjunger) May 13, 2021

Freedom!

That which is rare is valuable. pic.twitter.com/mWqc3LLBeT

— Sebastian Junger (@sebastianjunger) May 3, 2021

Freedom!

Thrilled to announce FREEDOM, which explains how people across the ages maintain autonomy in the face of more powerful foes. Humans are unique in that ability, and were that not true, the powerful would always dominate. Thankfully, they don’t. Avail 5/18: https://t.co/eFN3dUiyZl pic.twitter.com/6ENV3VcAhM

— Sebastian Junger (@sebastianjunger) April 13, 2021

Related:

Today, I’m joined by Jack Donovan to talk about the roles of masculinity, individual responsibility, the heroic ideal, and why we as men look to the Gods and what we can learn from them.https://t.co/zQaWooR5Rr pic.twitter.com/KLZMUkUStS

— Ryan Michler (@ryanmichler) April 13, 2021

Everything revolves around taking care of one another and putting our #PeopleFirst pic.twitter.com/3Yfg4aVqa1

— 3rd Special Forces Group 🇺🇸 (@3rdSFGroup) April 16, 2021

Find your tribe.

Tribe, Community, Survival, Ritual with Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger Introduces the Leakey Foundation Lecture Series

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War

Peak Prosperity Interview with Sebastian Junger

Peak Prosperity: Sebastian Junger: Is Our Material Wealth Undermining Our Happiness & Health?

So if you can't defend yourself against an outside group like that, you’re in enormous danger. That's one great threat to the welfare of a community. The other great threat is the community splitting because of that moral conflict. Often those moral conflicts are the results of unfairness. So unfairness within the society can be as dangerous as an enemy outside the society and typically, they’ve done a lot of genetic studies of this. Liberalism and conservatism are not just political ways of thinking in modern America. They those says of seeing the world go way, way back and they’re genetically encoded into us.

So there are genetic conservatives whose primary fear is threat from the outside. Conservatives are oriented toward an outside threat in a very basic sense. Genetic liberals are oriented towards an internal threat. An abuse of power. Unfairness. That kind of thing. The genetics for these political viewpoints are divided roughly 50-50 in the population. So essentially what you have is, in any human community about half the people they’re worried about outside threats and half the people are worried about internal problems. In a kind of stasis. I mean, you sort of need both just like you need both men and women in the society.

So the trick is to sort of balance those very, very legitimate concerns. But they’re sort of antithetical to each other. So like the _____ [00:15:47] sort of moral hierarchies that are good at protecting the society from an outside threat are terrible when it comes to things like that within the society. So that's where you need government. That's where you need wise government and you need the two opposing parties to acknowledge that each one needs the other in order to correctly…in order to protected and run the country in a proper way.

The distinction being made here is not between "conservatives" and "liberals" but between "Republicans" and "Democrats" but both parties serve the state and the oligarchy. (Whether it can be claimed that the Democratic Party, before the rise of urban mass population centers in the industrial period, was not statist I have not investigated yet.)

It is men who would be concerned both with external threats and internal threats arising from injustice committed by other men, and men who would be protecting the community from both threats and maintaining the common good and order -- men are the backbone of the republican form of polity ; female moral psychology is such that it is less concerned with justice and more with outcome, and this is of use to the state, which seeks to increase its power.

Some Podcasts with Sebastian Junger

Art of Manliness

Stitcher

Econlib

The Art of Charm Podcast


Legends and Losers Podcast

Hell on Earth

More with Sebastian Junger

Junger misses the imapct of identity politics.

Some T for that Soy Rag National Review

The Anthropology of Manhood by Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger Has a New Book Out

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

My new book TRIBE: On Homecoming and Belonging is available now. More info. here: https://t.co/MoaX5iQSLM pic.twitter.com/TdIZLS3eFC

— Sebastian Junger (@sebastianjunger) June 6, 2016

Jack Donovan reviews it: Tribalism is Not Humanitarianism - STW Episode 17

If Donovan's characterization of the book is correct, then it certainly does fall short of the truth about tribes and community.

NPR story







Man, just missed him in Corte Madera.

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Sebastian Junger's twitter and FB

Sebastian Junger on PTSD

How PTSD Became a Problem Far Beyond the Battlefield

Any discussion of PTSD and its associated sense of alienation in society must address the fact that many soldiers find themselves missing the war after it’s over. That troubling fact can be found in written accounts from war after war, country after country, century after century. Awkward as it is to say, part of the trauma of war seems to be giving it up. There are ancient human behaviors in war—loyalty, inter-reliance, cooperation—that typify good soldiering and can’t be easily found in modern society. This can produce a kind of nostalgia for the hard times that even civilians are susceptible to: after World War II, many Londoners claimed to miss the communal underground living that characterized life during the Blitz (despite the fact that more than 40,000 civilians lost their lives). And the war that is missed doesn’t even have to be a shooting war: “I am a survivor of the AIDS epidemic,” a man wrote on the comment board of an online talk I gave about war. “Now that AIDS is no longer a death sentence, I must admit that I miss those days of extreme brotherhood … which led to deep emotions and understandings that are above anything I have felt since the plague years.”

What all these people seem to miss isn’t danger or loss, per se, but the closeness and cooperation that danger and loss often engender. Humans evolved to survive in extremely harsh environments, and our capacity for cooperation and sharing clearly helped us do that. Structurally, a band of hunter-gatherers and a platoon in combat are almost exactly the same: in each case, the group numbers between 30 and 50 individuals, they sleep in a common area, they conduct patrols, they are completely reliant on one another for support, comfort, and defense, and they share a group identity that most would risk their lives for. Personal interest is subsumed into group interest because personal survival is not possible without group survival. From an evolutionary perspective, it’s not at all surprising that many soldiers respond to combat in positive ways and miss it when it’s gone.

Sebastian Junger, Korengal

Why Veterans Miss War

More after the jump...

Sebastian Junger's Tribute to Tim Hetherington

Documentary honors war photographer Tim Hetherington (includes embedded video, a preview of the documentary)

HBO: "Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington"



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