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Why People Give Up Freedom W/ Prof. Mattias Desmet #331

Aubrey Marcus Podcast

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The Happiest Time of Your Life

Human beings don't develop things that are entirely unproductive. So you take a look at, like sebastian yunger's workin his book tribe. In interviewing and surveying the people who survived the blitzkreeg in london, they report that that was the happiest time of their life. They were happiest when the bombs were falling. Can you imagine the atrocity of bombs gessing people, people dying, exploding? But they felt such a deep social bond, and all their focus of attention was on the notses, on the bombs. It brought everybody together. No one was lonely. Actually, the mental hospitals, they all emptied out to a certain degree

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