Bruce Feiler
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802 appearances
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2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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In the 19th century, 5,000 people in the Civil War were diagnosed as having died of homesickness, right?
So it turns out there is this robust history.
The difference is—so then what happens, of course, is then transportation arises.
And homesickness evolves in the 20th century from a place associated with physical places to—
an idea associated kind of with a time, right?
So I remember when we did this little ritual, we'll obviously get to this in a second, but we did this ritual when we took our girls the night before we took them to college.
And it turned out that they were more upset about the end of their childhood
than they were about the idea of entering their young adulthood.
And I think that's what we felt and a lot of parents feel about, oh, kind of more upset about the end of the everyday kind of parenting dynamic as opposed to unease.
And so the reason to now get to the other question you asked me, the reason that mine went to ritual was –
Ritual is... There's this sort of paradox at the heart of this whole project, right?
And the first element of it is that ritual works.
Like, it's one of the few things that we know holds groups, families together.
We have 300,000 years of evidence.
The first thing that humans did before we were anatomically human was get together and bury our dead and mark that passage.
So for thousands of years, for thousands of centuries...
Whenever there's been an instability in the group, the group turns to ritual.
What do I mean by instability?
Someone comes into the group, a baby or a wedding.
Someone leaves the group, like a coming of age, like a death.
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