#sebastian junger

[atomicradiogirl]

interesting quotes from war by sebastian junger

[dabiconcordia]

“How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?” By Sebastian Junger, The perfect storm

[dramoor]

"Death isn't the end of life; it's like turning off a lamp because morning has arrived."

~Sebastian Junger

(Photo © dramoor 2015 Maroon Bells Wilderness Area, Colorado)

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing  to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.

Sebastian Junger,  Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Dedicated to my fellow veterans on this Armed Forces Week.

May you win the war you brought home with you.

Dum spiro spero (while I breathe, I hope).

[thoughtfulfangirling]

Our insignificance alongside so much energy even started to feel like its own form of freedom until we realized that everything we needed—food, clothes, gear—came from the very thing we thought we were outwitting. If subsistence-level survival were the standard for absolute freedom, the word would mean nothing because virtually no one could pass that test. People love to believe they’re free, though, which is hard to achieve in a society that has outsourced virtually all of the tasks needed for survival. Few people grow their own food or build their own homes, and no one—literally no one—refines their own gasoline, performs their own surgery, makes their own ball bearings, grinds their own eyeglass lenses, or manufactures their own electronics from scratch. Everyone—including people who vehemently oppose any form of federal government—depend on a sprawling supply chain that can only function with federal oversight, and most of them pay roughly one-third of their income in taxes for the right to participate in this system.

— Freedom by Sebastian Junger

[postersbykeith]

[jonathanjudge]

[loudlylovingreview]

Mike Vargo: Bad Religion, Good Religion

Trying to grasp how the world works is, literally, a trying occupation. For years I pursued it as a journalist, studying the actions of the great and the ungreat. These days, the only official “reporting” I do is occasionally reviewing live theater. The plays are scripted simulations of real life and I get to hear incisive, memorable lines spoken on stage.  But one of the best lines came…

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

Near-death experience

What they found was that in the 30 seconds before and after the moment of death — and of course death isn't just confined to a single moment, it's a spectrum — there was a surge in brain activity related to dreaming and memories and all kinds of other things.

So one of the things that might happen when people die is that they experience this flood of sensations from their life. Why would they? Who knows? It's hard to come up with this Darwinian reason for why this might be adaptive when a person’s dying. It's not a question of survival and procreation, and Darwinism is not concerned with emotional comfort. It just doesn't matter in the Darwinian arithmetic, so it's hard to know what to make of it.

https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/351128/the-science-of-near-death-experiences

[waywordsstudio]

Just a Question: Are You A Completionist? For Which Writers?

[yungnitsch]

excerpten uit Tribe van Sebastian Junger

ja lezen

[vulnerasti-cor-meum]

have to read greek plays to understand girard have to read sarrasine to understand barthes learning takes so much effort sob

[jesslovesboats]

I guess it's time to start moving some content from twt over here! For those who don't know me, I'm a public librarian with a special interest in polar and nautical history, and I love nothing more than connecting readers with good books. I've managed to convert some friends to my way of thinking, and one of them coined the phrase "sad boat books" to describe the types of books that I'm always reading and recommending. Here is my first list of sad boat books-- I can personally vouch for all of them!

New to sad boat? Start here to see if it’s for you!

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton

The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John Geiger

Terra Nova, A GREAT first expedition!

The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

A First Rate Tragedy by Diana Preston

Robert Falcon Scott Journals- Captain Scott’s Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott

“I Love Ernest Shackleton” starter pack

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Shackleton’s Boat Journey by Frank Worsley

The Endurance by Caroline Alexander

“I Hate Ernest Shackleton” starter pack

The Lost Men by Kelly Tyler-Lewis

Polar Castaways by Richard McElrea and David Harrowfield

Roald Roald Roald!

The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen by Stephen Bown

The South Pole by Roald Amundsen

The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford*

*DISCLAIMER: this guy hates Captain Scott and gets most of the Scott details wrong, read for Roald only!

The Franklin Expedition

Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John Geiger

Erebus by Michael Palin

May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Expedition edited by Russell A. Potter, Regina Koellner, Peter Carney, and Mary Williamson

Non-polar sad boats

The Bounty by Caroline Alexander

Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

Sometimes a sad balloon can be a sad boat

The Expedition by Bea Uusma

The Ice Balloon by Alec Wilkinson

Karluk/Wrangel Island, the expeditions of my heart

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk by Buddy Levy

The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven

The Karluk’s Last Voyage by Robert A. Bartlett

The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor’s Memoir of Arctic Disaster by William Laird McKinlay

Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven

Miscellaneous sad boat books that are well worth your time

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance by Mensun Bound

In The Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides

Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton

Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy

If you read and enjoy any of these, please let me know!

[wintersportism]

wie kann’s eigentlich sein dass robert karow in jedem tatort shirtless durch die gegend rennt und selbst sebastian bootz schon oben ohne unterwegs war aber wir in sechs episoden spatort noch nie leo hölzer oberkörperfrei gesehen haben obwohl vladi gebaut ist wie ein junger gott

[atomicradiogirl]

“The willness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly. What the army sociologists, with their clipboards and their questions, and their endless meta analyses, slowly came to understand was that courage was love. In war neither could exist without the other, and that in a sense, they were just different ways of saying the same thing.” - from War by Sebastian Junger

“the willingness to die for another person is a form of love.” i want to question that for a second because are you really willing to die for them, or is it just what you would have done anyway? when you're in that position of living with somebody and understanding somebody to a degree that nobody else can, that is a form of love. but the willingness to die part, is it yourself who wants that or is it the pure collective removal of your individualism, of your personhood? because the army strips you of that. you are not yourself. you are there to serve your fellow soldiers, your country, you're not there to serve yourself. all of your selflessness is gone. you would rather sacrifice your life for the guy next to you than to save yourself, because that's what you’re primed to do that's what you're there for. so is that really love or is that just what you would have done anyway? because you’re brainwashed into doing so?

“courage was love.” but is it really courage? and is it really love if it's just saving the guy next to you? would you love this person, would you take that risk or do this if you weren't in this war zone? definitely not. you probably would hate the guy next to you in real life. but you're in this life or death survival situation. they have this deep devotion to each other, you form this brotherhood and then it's addictive and you want to keep it because you don't have a relationship like this anywhere else.

it's really interesting to think about whether love has anything to do with agency, and i know people will say, oh, you don't really control who you love. that's true. but, are they really allowed to love or are they taught to love?

[thoughtfulfangirling]

For most of human history, freedom had to be at least suffered for, if not died for, and that raised its value to something almost sacred. In modern democracies, however, an ethos of public sacrifice is rarely needed because freedom and survival are more or less guaranteed. That is a great blessing but allows people to believe that any sacrifice at all—rationing water during a drought, for example—are forms of government tyranny.

— Freedom by Sebastian Junger