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Very interesting author who is trained as an anthropologist and has a theory that people’s lives are too complex and thus they crave the simplicity of natural disasters and tragic events such as war which creats bonds and a sense of grounding.
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I think that people crave these events because people are bored — and the complexity of modern life has replaced “simple and boring” with “complex and boring”.
I agree. Also, I believe that people have become accustomed to avoiding real experience and preferring intermediation through industrial culture and “drone attacks”, to paraphrase Ivan Illich.