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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
So I like the ideas presented and some of the examples given, but they hit on such complex stuff that it feels under researched or under presented.
This book had some interesting pieces of information in it, but I was feeling a little to emotional to enjoy reading about the atrocities of war, rape, etc etc.
CW: r*pe, suicide
Read this on the recommendation of a new friend. It was interesting but loses major points for appearing to be pro-Israel (no mention whatsoever of Palestine? really?). It will be interesting to discuss it further with said friend.
Read this on the recommendation of a new friend. It was interesting but loses major points for appearing to be pro-Israel (no mention whatsoever of Palestine? really?). It will be interesting to discuss it further with said friend.
The author brought to light a lot of what plagues mankind in the modern age but little of how to fix it. I was not a fan of mankind 'needing' hardship to be happy, I more like the idea of stripping our egos to find happiness. This listen was just ok.
Had to stop 50 pages in. Granted that's almost 1/2 way for this short book, but the idea that war is good and people are better off living with savages (because apparently that makes them less suicidal) is too disturbing to continue.
A tremendous book. There is no doubt that the cleaving of our society continues to grow and the author beautifully, and sometimes painfully, describes this process. There are some instances where the author attributes causality to correlations but it doesn't hurt the theme. A bold book.
I liked the premise and agree with many of the author’s points, but the book was too overgeneralized for me. Either be more academic or more anecdotal. This was probably best as the magazine article it started as.
So I would say this is actually a 3.5 star book. This was an extremely quick read. The writing was very readable but I feel that Junger occasionally drifted far enough from his main thesis I got a little lost. I think the biggest thing to keep in mind when reading this book is that it is not a scientific examination of groups and tribal cohesion rather an extended essay on Jungar's understanding of the role of the tribe in modern society, most specifically in relation to American Indian and military culture.
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Junger hypothesizes that our highly individualized culture is damaging us, particularly our vets.
Junger hypothesizes that our highly individualized culture is damaging us, particularly our vets.