American journalist and documentary filmmaker — author of The Perfect Storm, War, and Tribe — whose Tribe argues that modern Western individualism fails to meet the human need for belonging and purpose that tribal community provides.
Provided the most rigorous journalistic argument for why modernity produces psychological suffering not despite its comfort but because of it — that humans are wired for tribal cooperation and threat-facing, and that affluent individualistic society removes precisely the conditions under which humans feel most alive and connected.
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