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The author says that tribal and ancient societies punished egocentric individuals who acted against the common good. He then compares modern executives who would be punished in hunter-gatherer societies. My Note: The madness of tribal crowds and the rose-tinted glasses In Tribe there is a description of an old pictorial image of a man struck by several arrows.

And it felt like Junger was wearing some truly distorting rose-tinted glasses. As Friederich Nietzche said, madness in crowds is the norm. They haze on each other, drive too fast, and act recklessly to show that they are ready to be men. Sebastian Junger presents statistics and stories to show that people are closer during extremely difficult times such as war. He quotes individuals who said they were all happier during wars and all closer and more united. I quote:.

I asked Amatasovic if people had ultimately been happier during the war. And then talks about how foraging tribes punish males who tried to control a disproportionate share of the group resources.

There are occasional demonstrations against economic disparities like the Occupy Wall Street protest of But they were generally peaceful and ineffective. The racial demonstrations.. I disagree with that point of view.

Junger says that the agricultural revolution allowed people to act more individualistic which, in turn, means acting against the common good. I personally strongly reject that idea. The author, for example, says that because foraging tribes need to share food for their own survival, they have adopted communal ways of living. When one man tries to take control of the group, other males will stop him.

And that, he says is:. Clearly an ancient and adaptive behavior that tends to keep groups together and equitably cared for.

Israelis fighting to defend their homeland -or supposed homeland- had low levels of PTSD. But Americans shipped overseas to fight wars they have no idea about, among troops that have little in common with each other, had higher levels of mental issues.

Tribe is also a great textbook to understand humans as social animals. To understand our need to connect and belong. I can also agree with its central idea: that modern society is a trade-off.

Yes, it does offer lots of comforts and a safer existence, but we pay the price with more mental issues and a lack of communal living and emotional connection. However, I completely disagree about the balance of that trade-off. To me, the tradeoff is extremely positive. This is a society of freedom, there is something from everyone.

Even for those who want more communal living. Whenever he criticized modern society for undoing the past, I thought that was a great thing. No more crowds madness. I suppose Sebastian Junger prefers collectivism somehow.

Especially when that individualism provides those individuals more freedom to live life however they please. Again, please read this foundational article on individualism. I think there is much to learn from Tribe by Sebastian Junger. But I also think it can lead people astray on the wrong kind of idealism. We need one single tribe that embraces not all the people closes to us, but all humanity and all forms of living. Anything else is backward and way too dangerous.

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