“The very efficiency of mass society makes people feel unnecessary, and therein lies a profound threat to our dignity.”— Sebastian Junger, nationalreview.comTagged: Conflict, Suffering, Happiness
“Humans don’t survive alone in nature; they die — and as a result, we are all hardwired to belong to groups. But the only way to guarantee membership in a group is to be needed by it, so being unneeded can feel catastrophic.”— Sebastian Junger, nationalreview.comTagged: Community, Others, Skin hunger epidemic
“Most men are not criminals, of course, but a huge majority of criminals are men. Men make up 93 percent of the American prison population, and young men die from accidents and violence at up to six times the rate of young women. The cause is not just poor socialization, however: Male violence is a p…”— Sebastian Junger, nationalreview.comTagged: Violence, Why people are such dicks
“A 2015 report in Human Ethology Bulletin, for example, found a strong correlation between a woman’s self-reported vulnerability and her sexual preference for aggressive men.”— Sebastian Junger, nationalreview.comTagged: Violence, Why people are such dicks