I didn’t highlight this one a lot because it wasn’t mine. But here are a few quotes I couldn’t pass up:

“Men in the peaceful areas were depressed because they couldn’t help their society by participating in the struggle” (pg 49).

“Air raids failed to trigger the kind of mass hysteria that government officials had predicted” (pg 51).

“What catastrophes seem to do - sometimes in teh span of a few minutes - is turn back the clock on ten thousand years of social evolution. Self-interest gets subsumed into group interest because there is no survival outside group survival, and that creates a social bond that many people sorely miss” (pg 66).

Grade: B+

There wasn’t much new or groundbreaking, but there were a few great reminders of how important tribes are to mankind and how danger and pain and suffering can actually be agents to draw us together, rather than pull us apart.

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