Them
Subtitle: why we hate each other -- and how to heal
By: Ben Sasse
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781250193681
Subjects: Social conditions; Community life; Civil society; Social isolation
Description: Presents an assessment of the existential crisis in modern America that explores how increasing social isolation and the collapse of traditional community connections lead to tension and pessimism, arguing that the solution is a rediscovery of human connections.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: More politics can't fix this; title: Collapsing Tribes. Our loneliness epidemic; title: Strangers at work; title: Anti-Tribes. The comforts of polititainment; title: The polarization business model; title: Our To-Do List. Become Americans again; title: Set tech limits; title: Buy a cemetery plot; title: Be a smarter nomad; title: Conclusion: We need more tribes.