Sebastian Junger: people’s hunger for simplicity and experience

English: Tim Hetherington at a Hudson Union So...
English: Tim Hetherington at a Hudson Union Society event with Sebastian Junger, co-director of the Oscar-nominated, Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary, Restrepo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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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.