Sebastian Junger has written a vitally important book because it explains something that is right in front of our faces but which we do not see: the destruction wrought by the atomization of society. As he details, it is a trait reinforced by genetics over thousands of millennia that humans survive in crises by taking care of one another. Absent crises, in this modern, largely comfortable world, the impulse toward community is short-circuited. The result: depression, PTSD, suicide, opioid abuse, political demagoguery, mass shootings, hopelessness, isolation.
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