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#396 - Sebastian Junger - The Brutal History Of Freedom

Modern Wisdom

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The Leader of the Goody Side

Michael mallin was an irish revolutionary in 19 16 who commanded a brigade in dublin. On his way to the jail where they would kill him, he saw his dog and wrote last desperate letterof anguish to wife and children. Medical examiner that was present at executions said only people not shaken by situation were condemned men on firing squads. You see this echo symbolically in stories and in movies as well. The leader of the goody side is always the guy that's charging into battle. And then it's the good guy that will eventually rise up the lift and fight through all the layers and then get to this bourgeois twap that some one, someone needs to kill.

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