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#396 - Sebastian Junger - The Brutal History Of Freedom

Modern Wisdom

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The Politics of Cowardice and Cowardism

In hunter gatherer societies, the most common reason for killing one's leader was abuse. The monotheistic god that was invented during the advent of agriculture allowed great numbers of people to live together. But now we're basically a godless society. So what do we have in its place? A, we have c, c, t b - it's very hard to commit a public crime without t being captured video. We also have penalizing selfish behavior at the polling booth. And we have to call it out in our own party because everyone's going to ignore it. It's nalking in on e system until those two parties decide to apply some real morality to their own people

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