Episode Transcript: #975 - Sebastian Junger
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All right, we're live. What's up, man? How are you?
Hey, I'm pretty good. I'm excited. I walked in on a pool game.
Yeah. I barely squeaked it out.
It was a very nice shot to end it, though. That's the way to end it.
So, I've been reading your book, man. Tribe. I really enjoy it. It's really good.
Thank you.
It resonates. It's very interesting. Into the first chapter, I wanted to move in with the Native Americans.
It was such a... I mean, it was... One of the more interesting aspects of it was something that I didn't know about,
which was the European settlers that had been kidnapped and were living with the Native Americans.
And then, when they were rescued, many of them wanted to go back.
Yeah, or they would go into hiding, so they wouldn't have to be repatriated to colonial society.
They wanted to stay with their adopted tribes. And there was also a lot of young white people, particularly white men,
but young women, too, who basically absconded across the frontier into tribal society.
They fled white society. They didn't like it. And as Benjamin Franklin pointed out, we have lots of...
Young colonials fleeing to the Indians, and we have not one example of an Indian, as they were called, fleeing to white society.
Yeah, that was one of the more fascinating aspects of it. I didn't anticipate that.
I thought that there would be a lot of Native Americans. So, it would be like, wow, this is a way better...
Look at all the food. Look at the houses and...
I mean, they had plenty of food. Whatever. They were a very successful society.
In fact, they had better nutrition than the whites that...