The Importance of Community #shorts

The data is really striking on this, that if you're part of a community, if you're part of a tribe, part of even a bowling or knitting circle, that you're healthier and you live longer, independent of what you're doing with your lifestyle. There is a sort of deep need for all of us to have meaning and purpose, and then without that, you know, our lives sort of become frayed. And then we see these crises of mental illness and depression and anxiety. And one of the things you do talk about is this concept of micro trauma, but also the bigger traumas that we all suffer from and how part of our our cultural framework has been always putting this back on the individual instead of on society. When you look at the context of trauma and suffering, if we don't deal with it in our collective toxic culture, it's very hard for us to deal with it as individuals.