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An excellent and thought provoking book, that for me, had almost immediate applications in my own life. He does an excellent job of articulating things that had floated on the edges of my own consciousness for quite some time.

In my opinion it's HUGE mistake to think this book is a treatise, let alone a single topic analysis on PTSD. It's not even about PTSD, even if it comes up in some sections. I saw the author speak last week and believe me, that wasn't what he focused on by any stretch. Sure, he uses his time with soldiers and interviews vets (plus many others touched by war in various ways) as jumping off points to look at the broader societal issues. But it's a jumping off point, not the actual topic.

Tribe is really an analysis of the slow disintegration of our evolutionary impulses to cooperate and seek one another's support as we work towards a common good. It's not an American problem, or even a Western civilization one, but the intended consequence of modernity, dating back at least few hundred years. Obviously recent decades have made this isolation and dissolution of our collective cohesion much worse, and Junger does a really thoughtful job of looking at it from a whole range of perspectives.


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Tribe On Homecoming and Belonging eBook Sebastian Junger Reviews

I'll be frank. I've not been a big fan of Junger's previous books, but in this book he puts his finger on one of the most important cultural realities of the twenty-first century, the loss of tight-knit communities. Certainly, Robert Putnam (in his important book BOWLING ALONE) and others have documented similar realities, but Junger's work stands out for two reasons 1) it is immensely accessible and 2) he arrives at this conclusion from a unique perspective, that of his observation of the military experience. One of his central themes is the idea that soldiers in combat situations have such an intense experience of interdependency, solidarity and community that they often struggle upon returning to civilian life in the US, in which there rarely is any similar sort of community to which they can belong.

TRIBE is well-worth reading for pointed socio-political questions it asks about American civic life and for the keen observations it makes about the combat experience. Thankfully, Junger doesn't offer any easy fixes, but on the other hand, he doesn't do much to stir our imaginations about how to cultivate in American civilian life the sort of solidarity that combat engenders. At times, he does tend toward idealizing the Native American experience of tribal life, and that sort of idealism won't be particularly helpful for addressing the dissolution of community that we so intensely experience. Regardless, this is a timely book that should not only widely read, but also widely discussed.
I have long wondered why when it was time for me to return to America from Vietnam I was apprehensive, perhaps even a bit frightened. Mr. Junger answered my question. I left my tribe.

Now, years later, a libertarian-conservative, I had even allowed myself to hold the political left in contempt. This book shames me and I suspect that in that regard the book will even affect change in me.

I'm supposed to be writing about this book, not myself, but for me the book was not just interesting and informative. It opened up something long suppressed and I am grateful.

If you are a vet you should read it. If you are so highly partisan that you regard those other guys as evil, please read it.

It's not just a good book.
Upon reading Junger’s article in a recent Vanity Fair article on the affects of PTSD (it’s not exclusive to just war veterans, by the way), I was under the assumption that a large portion of this book would be dedicated to that. I was wrong. Sebastian dove much deeper than that.

Tribe focuses on the growing disconnect we’re experiencing with one another as a society, and the far reaching consequences of that disconnect. It’s an eye-opening letter to the American public that politely reminds us that we’ve lost our way when it comes to being a closer knit community as a whole.

Not always, of course. In his book, he touches on how tragedies such as 9/11 brings us closer - albeit briefly. But once the dust settles, we fall back to our old ways.

This is not a book about war, the military, or PTSD. It’s about the loss of belonging, caring for our fellow man as we do about the ones closest to us. He uses a parable about a brief encounter he has with a homeless man as a young adult. The man sees that he’s on a backpacking trip on his own and asks if he has enough food for his trip. The young Junger, afraid of being mugged for his supplies, lies and tells the man that he has just a little food to last him. The homeless man tells Junger he’ll never make it on what he has and hands him his lunch bag that he more than likely received from a homeless shelter - probably the only meal the homeless man would have the entire day. Sebastian feels horrible about himself after that, but uses that lesson as a parable for Tribe.

Think of your fellow man before thinking of yourself. Because without that sense of humanism, togetherness, belonging, we’re all dead inside.
An excellent and thought provoking book, that for me, had almost immediate applications in my own life. He does an excellent job of articulating things that had floated on the edges of my own consciousness for quite some time.

In my opinion it's HUGE mistake to think this book is a treatise, let alone a single topic analysis on PTSD. It's not even about PTSD, even if it comes up in some sections. I saw the author speak last week and believe me, that wasn't what he focused on by any stretch. Sure, he uses his time with soldiers and interviews vets (plus many others touched by war in various ways) as jumping off points to look at the broader societal issues. But it's a jumping off point, not the actual topic.

Tribe is really an analysis of the slow disintegration of our evolutionary impulses to cooperate and seek one another's support as we work towards a common good. It's not an American problem, or even a Western civilization one, but the intended consequence of modernity, dating back at least few hundred years. Obviously recent decades have made this isolation and dissolution of our collective cohesion much worse, and Junger does a really thoughtful job of looking at it from a whole range of perspectives.