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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
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.
I can appreciate some of the sentiments, but the author doesn’t offer many solutions.
Not a book I would have usually picked up on my own, but this was dropped in my lap (almost literally) at the Adult Author Breakfast at BEA.
I've never read Junger before but this is a very thoughtful and thought-provoking short book about community, social contract, and belonging and how that seems to be a major detrimental lack in modern Western society. He doesn't have a lot of answers but surfaces a lot of trends and ideas to digest.
I've never read Junger before but this is a very thoughtful and thought-provoking short book about community, social contract, and belonging and how that seems to be a major detrimental lack in modern Western society. He doesn't have a lot of answers but surfaces a lot of trends and ideas to digest.
Tribe was a wonderful book that examined the relationship between modern society and loss of communal identity among various cultures. I would highly recommend it.
I cannot praise this book enough. I gained so much insight into how we work as a society, what we do well and where we've gone wrong. This book was balanced perfectly in the middle between the political parties tearing our country apart. The book also had the best breakdown of what PTSD is and how it is useful to survival and how it operates differently. The most important thing I gained from this book was the realization that life is a battle, and everyone should be a warrior fighting together. “You don’t owe your country nothing,” I remember him telling me. “You owe it something, and depending on what happens, you might owe it your life.”
the fact that i’ve never reviewed this is confusing me but anyway i loved this book. it’s so interesting and so important in todays world. it definitely offers a lot of explanations for the mental health crisis while also looking at the past
Maybe one of my favorite nonfiction books I've ever read. This is excellent and I'll be thinking about it for years.