Book 24 of 2018 is Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger.
He talks about ancient cultures and primal cultures and current native cultures. He talks about how they have support and lack high rates of suicide because of support. The idea that the tribe and building a tribe is the way humans are meant to live.
Although I come from a modern tribal culture and the idea of building your clan, I disagree with the modern and ancient culture of total acceptance of who you. I can name many things like homosexuality, refusal to breed and wanting to leave the group as reasons why traditional tribes are not perfect.
He doesn't use data but instead make declarative statements about how the world should be and how a group of people you conform to makes that better.
There were some great ideas. We do need people. We do need acceptance or at least the place to voice who we are. We do need belonging.
My challenge is that it isn't as easy as finding a group to belong to. I belong to may groups and they satisfy a lot of my needs and wants. It's not black and white.
3 white defects to native American tribes out of 5.
Should I read this? Only with the intention to expand your philosophical views. Otherwise, nay.
What did I learn? We build our networks. They do not pick us.
