Why Modern Society Makes Us Depressed - Sebastian Junger
6/13/20261 hr 9 min
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Speaker 10:08
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Sebastian Junger· Guest0:33
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Speaker 10:37
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Sebastian Junger· Guest0:41
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Speaker 10:44
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Konstantin Kisin· Host0:45
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Speaker 10:46
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Speaker 10:53
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Sebastian Junger· Guest1:00
It's clear that our society, for all of its wonderful benefit, it's clear that our society is not providing enough human connection to keep people happy. We're way out on a limb here with this individuality. I mean, humans have never survived as individuals. It's not possible. You take someone, you put them down in the wilderness by themselves, they die almost immediately. As a species, we are social primates, and we owe our lives to the group, and we have to participate. We have a duty to the group in order to stay alive. That's what being human means. If you can simultaneously