Sebastian Junger on stoicism, the Democrats' man problem, and what happens when we die

Sebastian Junger [https://open.substack.com/users/4194267-sebastian-junger?utm_source=mentions] is the author of The Perfect Storm [https://www.sebastianjunger.com/], [https://www.sebastianjunger.com/]War [https://www.sebastianjunger.com/], [https://www.sebastianjunger.com/]Tribe [https://www.sebastianjunger.com/], [https://www.sebastianjunger.com/]Freedom [https://www.sebastianjunger.com/], and most recently [https://www.sebastianjunger.com/]In My Time of Dying: How I came face to face with the idea of an afterlife [https://www.sebastianjunger.com/].

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 [https://sebastianjunger.substack.com/p/the-great-abandonment]."

Ishmael and Queequeg together in bed, as sketched by Rockwell Kent, 1930

* The virtues of stoicism

* American Psychological Association [https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/01/ce-corner] 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 [https://sebastianjunger.substack.com/p/young-men-and-how-the-democrats-lost]