Steve Sailer: Why do the guys defending a fort in Afghanistan find living in a tiny bunker to be a blast, while coming home to America is so discombobulating for them?

Comments:

* Because American society now is mostly composed of atomized individuals, backstabbing and a lack of community. Most parents don’t even socialize their kids anymore they let the TV/computer and state do it. Look these guys come home from a locale where they had each others back and would die to protect one another to a society where backstabbing is a way of life and no physical or emotional support in most cases. That is a major let down. The closet I think we had for community support was the VFW.

BTW this lack of tribalism/community is what led to the creation of the motorcycle gangs after WWII which were composed of vets returning from the wars to a society that had no place for camaraderie and community. The MC’s supply this in their own way.

* Well, the Obamunists and unprosecuted zillionaires seem plenty tribal, so maybe “de-tribalization” isn’t really the problem.

Or maybe the problem is what happens when a sufficiently powerful and cohesive tribe comes among the atomized and decadent modern Western “society”. If so, then the solution may indeed be re-tribalization of West’s traditional power people, say, the Anglo-Saxons for instance. Something tells me that the publishing establishment might not really welcome this, however.

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