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Have you ever wondered why increasing the possibility of communication between people seems to make them more resentful? Have you ever wondered what makes people feel? Are they more anxious and unhappy, even though their lives have become easier?
Well, tighten your belts! ... Uncle Mark will take you on a new journey! Just as his book, The Art of Not Apathy, questions our usual conventional wisdom about what makes us happy, Ruin: A Book of Hope questions all of our assumptions about what makes life worth living.
We live in a wonderful time! From a material point of view, everything is better than ever - we are now freer and richer than any previous generation in human history. But everything seems, for some reason, to be relentlessly bad. At this moment in history, when education, technology, and communications are within our reach that our ancestors could only dream of, many of us return to find ourselves under the weight of an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. What happened? This is what Mark Manson is trying to get us out of.
Manson published his book, The Art of Not Giving, in 2016. He has had great success in identifying the hidden and persistent anxieties that permeate modern life. He showed us that what our modern life has created in our souls of the restless drive to the constant pursuit of happiness only succeeds in making us less happy than before. The result was a book that became a global phenomenon, selling millions of copies worldwide and hitting number one in thirteen countries.
And now, with Destruction: A Book About Hope, Manson turns his view from the inevitable flaws in everyone's psyche to the endless disasters in the world around us. Drawing on the field of psychology research on these topics, and on the timeless wisdom of many philosophers, Manson explains politics, religion, and our relationships to money, the Internet, and the world of entertainment. And how much good it can eat us psychologically, it unequivocally challenges our definitions of faith, happiness, and freedom. Even for hope itself.
Well, tighten your belts! ... Uncle Mark will take you on a new journey! Just as his book, The Art of Not Apathy, questions our usual conventional wisdom about what makes us happy, Ruin: A Book of Hope questions all of our assumptions about what makes life worth living.
We live in a wonderful time! From a material point of view, everything is better than ever - we are now freer and richer than any previous generation in human history. But everything seems, for some reason, to be relentlessly bad. At this moment in history, when education, technology, and communications are within our reach that our ancestors could only dream of, many of us return to find ourselves under the weight of an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. What happened? This is what Mark Manson is trying to get us out of.
Manson published his book, The Art of Not Giving, in 2016. He has had great success in identifying the hidden and persistent anxieties that permeate modern life. He showed us that what our modern life has created in our souls of the restless drive to the constant pursuit of happiness only succeeds in making us less happy than before. The result was a book that became a global phenomenon, selling millions of copies worldwide and hitting number one in thirteen countries.
And now, with Destruction: A Book About Hope, Manson turns his view from the inevitable flaws in everyone's psyche to the endless disasters in the world around us. Drawing on the field of psychology research on these topics, and on the timeless wisdom of many philosophers, Manson explains politics, religion, and our relationships to money, the Internet, and the world of entertainment. And how much good it can eat us psychologically, it unequivocally challenges our definitions of faith, happiness, and freedom. Even for hope itself.
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