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One interesting thing i found was that if you take an affluent modern society and collapse it during a crisis, like a war or a natural disaster, people begin relating in a more ancient, organic way. they're functioning in small interdependent groups and putting others first. and another irony is that even in terrible times, cooperating makes people feel good.

-Sebastian Junger

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One Interesting Thing I Found Was That

Sebastian Junger

One interesting thing i found was that if you take an affluent modern society and collapse it during a crisis, like a war or a natural disaster, people begin relating in a more ancient, organic way. they're functioning in small interdependent groups and putting others first. and another irony is that even in terrible times, cooperating makes people feel good.

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I don't like the word ironic. i like the word absurdity, and i don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. the irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. when irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! let others give up, but not you! for you know in whom you believe and you know that he is always able. now, that's you!

The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.it's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.a society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.

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