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mlayden 's review for:
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
by Sebastian Junger
Living in a small rural community in the west of Ireland and having also lived in the US for several years this book feels right.
It is still very "tribal" here and indeed through a great deal of tragedies in the last few years I have seen the strength a community gets from its deep networks.
Having worked with many men who had been veterans in the US and seen their real pain and alienation from society I can understand his thesis at a deep level.
I had not seen this sort of discussion of PTSD before but it makes sense. I found the statistics of PTSD sufferers in Israel particularly eye opening. The discussion of the Blitz, Sierra Leone, Bosnia war, various disasters deeply interesting.
The overwhelming feeling I had from the book is how incredibly screwed up the modern world is, if people actually preferred how they felt during these horrors than day to day life in the disjointed uncaring world we live in.
Someone who thinks this clearly and deeply must find the typical prattling of talking heads particularly difficult.
It is still very "tribal" here and indeed through a great deal of tragedies in the last few years I have seen the strength a community gets from its deep networks.
Having worked with many men who had been veterans in the US and seen their real pain and alienation from society I can understand his thesis at a deep level.
I had not seen this sort of discussion of PTSD before but it makes sense. I found the statistics of PTSD sufferers in Israel particularly eye opening. The discussion of the Blitz, Sierra Leone, Bosnia war, various disasters deeply interesting.
The overwhelming feeling I had from the book is how incredibly screwed up the modern world is, if people actually preferred how they felt during these horrors than day to day life in the disjointed uncaring world we live in.
Someone who thinks this clearly and deeply must find the typical prattling of talking heads particularly difficult.