Summary: This guide questions why, when things are seemingly better than they ever have been, we're so deeply unhappy and hopeless.
Rating & Recommendation: 4/5; recommend for fans of Mark Manson, for the disenchanted
Review:My mother’s spent much of my lifetime teaching me to seek peace instead of happiness. I think that was her way of trying to explain to me that I was never going to truly escape pain. It underlies all of human experience, and happiness is simply a temporary reprieve from it. Peace, on the other hand, includes pain. It allows for pain, lives with it and around it, accepting it instead of playing ignorant to its presence.
This book is about that. It’s about how even though things are great, as a people, we’re deeply unsatisfied, unfulfilled, unhappy. And the reason we’re so unhappy is because... we’ve been pursuing happiness instead of peace. Everything IS fucked, but it’s because we’ve been attacking our malaise from the wrong direction. We’ve been taught to alleviate our pains, which morphed from disease and death and destitution to... less egregious and urgent ills. Our pains are now psychological for the most part, which means they can only be healed through psychological means.
I would actually classify this book as philosophy rather than self-help, but in any case, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it so much more than The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, which I found to be surface level, more of a band-aid, a salve. Everything is Fucked digs deeper. It’s like breaking a bone again to make sure it heals correctly. It isn’t just about the individual, but the population, the history, the trajectory. There’s entire sections about Einstein, Kant, and Nietzsche. Those were my favorite, so if that sounds like your nightmare, DO NOT READ THIS! But if you’re into consciousness and awareness, I would recommend Everything is Fucked.
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