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

Sebastian Junger [https://substack.com/profile/4194267-sebastian-junger] is the author of The Perfect Storm, War, Tribe, Freedom, and most recently 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]."

* 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]

* Harvard Professor pushed out for using words like male and female. [https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/8/11/biology-lecturer-gender-comments-backlash/]