[agumonkey]

I've read an article long ago about war veteran that wanted to go back. They found life in society more dreadful than war. War brought them unrivaled intensity of bonds (life or death is unquestionable) and order. In society everything is muddy and mediocre.

Even without going to the extent of war, I find "primitive life" is probably still healthiest for us existentially. Maybe using proxies like sports as symbolic wars.

[mannykannot]

I'm fairly sure that anthropological evidence shows, pretty conclusively, that early society was a good deal more violent (on account of violence inflicted by people) than what we have today. (I may well be mistaken about this, but I have a recollection of hearing something to the effect that all pre-columbian adult skeletal remains found in the Americas show evidence of violence (not that Columbus improved things, of course.))

[hcrisp]

Sounds like "Why Young Men Go to War" [0] by Sebastian Junger. He also wrote the book called War with similar themes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9389520

[agumonkey]

Thanks but the webpage i remember was older. Early 2000s style article and more about Vietnam era.