{"id":112178,"date":"2017-01-25T12:19:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=112178"},"modified":"2017-01-25T12:24:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:24:36","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=112178","title":{"rendered":"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?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/my-review-of-tribe-by-sebastian-junger\/\">Comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* Because American society now is mostly composed of atomized individuals, backstabbing and a lack of community. Most parents don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s supply this in their own way.<\/p>\n<p>* Well, the Obamunists and unprosecuted zillionaires seem plenty tribal, so maybe \u201cde-tribalization\u201d isn\u2019t really the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe the problem is what happens when a sufficiently powerful and cohesive tribe comes among the atomized and decadent modern Western \u201csociety\u201d. If so, then the solution may indeed be re-tribalization of West\u2019s traditional power people, say, the Anglo-Saxons for instance. Something tells me that the publishing establishment might not really welcome this, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments: * Because American society now is mostly composed of atomized individuals, backstabbing and a lack of community. Most parents don\u2019t even socialize their kids anymore they let the TV\/computer and state do it. Look these guys come home from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=112178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29733],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112180,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112178\/revisions\/112180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}