dozens reviewed Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
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2 stars
Oops, I didn't mean to read this. I thought it was Tribes, by Godin. So instead of getting a book on leadership, I got a pop-psyche/anthropology book on how we're lonely, isolated creatures, longing for a sense of tribal belonging. It's dominant focus is on how the lack of a meaningful community for war veterans to return to is generating unprecedented numbers of people with PTSD or other trauma related deficits, contrasted with Native American communities who have a very close, communal, tribal society which incorporates war, and which integrates war veterans better.
It was fine. There were a couple interesting tidbits. I've read several "modern society is morally bankrupt and the agricultural revolution ruined everything for us all" books now, so this wasn't especially revelatory or interesting. But it was super short.
His brief discourse on gender roles and trauma really drew focus to the fact that a …
Oops, I didn't mean to read this. I thought it was Tribes, by Godin. So instead of getting a book on leadership, I got a pop-psyche/anthropology book on how we're lonely, isolated creatures, longing for a sense of tribal belonging. It's dominant focus is on how the lack of a meaningful community for war veterans to return to is generating unprecedented numbers of people with PTSD or other trauma related deficits, contrasted with Native American communities who have a very close, communal, tribal society which incorporates war, and which integrates war veterans better.
It was fine. There were a couple interesting tidbits. I've read several "modern society is morally bankrupt and the agricultural revolution ruined everything for us all" books now, so this wasn't especially revelatory or interesting. But it was super short.
His brief discourse on gender roles and trauma really drew focus to the fact that a good 95% of the book seemed to about men to the exclusion of anybody else.