Arianna Huffington: What Soldiers at War Can Teach Us About Surviving Financial Warfare

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Arianna Huffington: After spending months embedded with a platoon in Afghanistan, author Sebastian Junger says that he was struck by how, after being put through "the worst experience possible," soldiers often miss it upon returning home. It's not because they are adrenaline junkies, he says. They are addicted to the brotherly love. "Every guy in that platoon was necessary to everyone else and that necessariness, I think, is actually way more addictive than adrenaline is," he says. "You have an unshakable meaning in a small group that you can't duplicate in a society." I believe we can duplicate both that "unshakable meaning" and "necessariness" here at home. Indeed, we must if we are going to survive on the financial battlefield where millions of Americans find themselves.

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