Is There a Source of Optimism in Social Media?

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Sebastian Younger: I think the whole mirage of social media is that if we follow it, it will lead to a sort of blissful community we can all be part of. We're not going to completely restructure modern society back to some sort of small scale tribal norm," he says. "We need to save ourselves, and we're only going to do that by connecting to each other"

Journalist and author Sebastian Junger talks about his book Tribe with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Junger explores the human need to be needed and the challenges facing many individuals in modern society who struggle to connect with others. His studies of communal connection include soldiers in a small combat unit and American Indian society in the nineteenth century.