October 15, 2020
Discussion led by Alan Rubin
Making extensive use of the words of the people themselves, Erikson details the conflicting tensions of mountain life in general—the tensions between individualism and dependency, self-assertion and resignation, self-centeredness and group orientation—and examines the loss of connection, disorientation, declining morality, rise in crime, rise in out-migration, etc., that resulted from the sudden loss of neighborhood.
https://www.supersummary.com/everything-in-its-path/summary/
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/20/archives/everything-in-its-path-more-was-broken-than-a-dam-everything.html