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Sebastian Junger Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice?”
— Sebastian Junger, Tribe
Tagged: Adulthood, Adulting, Suffering, The Digital Age
“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, The Anthropology of Manhood | National Review
Tagged: Violence, Why people are such dicks
“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, The Anthropology of Manhood | National Review
Tagged: Community, Others, Skin hunger epidemic
“Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.”
— Sebastian Junger, Tribe
Tagged: Suffering, The Digital Age, Community
“What I've learned in my life is if someone is acting badly, they're in pain. It's a really simple rule, they're either scared or in pain.”
— Sebastian Junger, Joe Rogan Experience #975- Sebastian Junger
Tagged: Donald Trump, Why people are such dicks, Pain, Human Nature, Mental Health, Quote of the Moment
“The very efficiency of mass society makes people feel unnecessary, and therein lies a profound threat to our dignity.”
— Sebastian Junger, The Anthropology of Manhood | National Review
Tagged: Conflict, Suffering, Happiness
“We're not going to burn down the suburbs and live in lean-tos, we'd probably be happier if we did, but we're not going to.”
— Sebastian Junger, Joe Rogan Experience #975- Sebastian Junger
Tagged: Happiness, Human Nature, The Suburbs, Community, Adversity
“It may be worth considering whether middle-class American life -- for all it's material good fortune -- has lost some essential sense of unity that might otherwise discourage alienated men from turning apocalyptically violent.”
— Sebastian Junger, Tribe
Tagged: Human Nature, Violence, Guns, Shootings, Why people are such dicks
“The reason veterans have a hard time coming home isn't because there's something inherently flawed about the transition process. It's because there's nothing to come home to. There's a society that's barely glued together and bitterly fractured.”
— Sebastian Junger, Sebastian Junger's Draft Proposal: Service with Non-Military Options
Tagged: Veterans, Community
“If war were purely and absolutely bad in every single aspect and toxic in all its effects, it would probably not happen as often as it does. But in addition to all the destruction and loss of life, war also inspires ancient human virtues of courage, loyalty, and selflessness that can be utterly intoxicating to the people who experience them.”
— Sebastian Junger, Tribe
Tagged: War, Human Nature, Violence
“It may say something about human nature that a surprising number of Americans -- mostly men -- wound up joining Indian society rather than staying in their own. They emulated Indians, married them, were adopted by them, and on some occasions even fought alongside them. And the opposite almost never happened: Indians almost never ran away to join white society. Emigration always seemed to go from the civilized to the tribal.”
— Sebastian Junger, Tribe
Tagged: Community
“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 problem across all societies, communities, and races, and the primary driver is testosterone, which declines steadily throughout a man’s adult lifetime. As testosterone levels go down, so do rates of violence and accidental death — which would not be the case if socialization alone were to blame.”
— Sebastian Junger, The Anthropology of Manhood | National Review
Tagged: Violence, Why people are such dicks
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