Sebastian Junger Offers Ideas on Community and Belonging

Poke your head above the magazine for a moment. Peek out your living room window. (And stop checking your phone. You’re checking your phone already, aren’t you?) Look at what you see: maybe a late-model car or two parked in the driveway, maybe a manicured lawn, maybe your own living room furnishings reflected back at you in the glass. The idea that these material objects won’t make a person happy isn’t exactly revolutionary. But look a bit further, and perhaps you’ll catch a glimpse of what might: the other people lurking behind the other curtains, checking other phones and getting rea

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Sebastian Junger Offers Ideas on Community and Belonging

In his latest book, the author of The Perfect Storm argues that people have evolved to thrive in certain types of close-knit communities-and not the kind with white picket fences.

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