Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

But I remember he said it way more eloquently than I can remember it.

But like Sebastian Junger, when he wrote the book Tribe, really explored like how humanity began in a way, in the sense that we existed in these mathematically smaller groups to where systems- Dunbar groups or whatever, yeah.

Yeah, I think so.

Where basically, and I'm not even sure he intended to do this, but he showed that elements of libertarianism and socialism can work.

Something that would make us feel like a tribe.

What I wanted wasn't destruction and mayhem, but the opposite, solidarity.

This is Tribe by Sebastian Junger.

This book, to me, is basically explains why so many of Americans and Western people are on SSRIs, which is antidepressants now, and why so many of us feel so alone in today's world that's hyper-connected.

And if I had to summarize it in one phrase, it's our Stone Age minds in Space Age times.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think, I think you're s- I think you're spot on.

I think that it's interesting to think about what is home, 'cause you just defined it as a place where if you tie back to this Tribes by Sebastian Junger, they're all hunter-gatherers.

I also like to read a lot of biographical type of readings on presidents and leaders and things like that.

But one of the books I think that was pretty cool and influential to me was, it's called Tribe.

I think it's...

I can't think of the author, Sebastian Junger.

And then from the financial point of view, because that's, again, a polarization.

I think, you know, even what I do in the books, it's never money focused.

I want to put the message out there, help people and then hopefully pay the mortgage at the end of it.

But, you know, how have you found that balance between staying creative but trying to carve out a way of supporting yourself as well?

Nipples are kind of a bad thing at the moment.

So you put your story exactly out as you want it.

You get a much better... uh amount back because it is your book after all but it's just the the marketing side no one's putting it in bookstores for you so but when you hear a lot of these publishing companies really aren't unless you're Stephen King or you know JK Rowling then it kind of reframes so that's that's what I always tell people I'm not a veteran writer by any means but if you're not having luck with the traditional publisher then you know just put it out Amazon and put that money into marketing instead

Did you...

That's not me.

No. Right? And so even if you look at Sebastian Junger's book, Tribe, right? I mean, you kind of get past some of...

Early on, there's maybe some political kind of stuff.

Ignore that.

Love the Ryan Holiday books.

Another really good one that I've found a lot of value in in the past is Tribe on Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger.

If you don't know who that is, he wrote the book that the movie The Perfect Storm is based on.

So very cool.