We All Worship Something, Says David Foster Wallace

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Bob Greene: We live in a time when religion is waning and getting less persuasive to most people. He says we've had trouble maintaining our connection to something larger than ourselves traditionally, which was religion. Greene: To return modern society to a more communal small scale connected society, you'd have to turn off the internet and ban the car.

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.