![]() This sees Manson taking a swipe at the self-help industry. And it involves the balance between two parts of your mind, your thinking brain and your feeling brain. It involves a hilarious piss-take on organised religion ( achieve everlasting bliss and eternal salvation! (or your money back)), handing you the blueprint to start your own. This involves a clever tale of an imagined Isaac Newton, emo-Newton, in an alternative universe, drawing up the laws of emotion. ![]() The first part of the book examines these three properties in detail. “our whole lives are formed around our desire to avoid the uncomfortable truth: that, ultimately, human existence is meaningless” Manson defines hope as a need to have something to look forward to, to believe that we are sufficiently in control of our lives to work towards it, and to be part of a community to achieve it with. Enjoy your fucking coffee.“Īnd so we have a fundamental psychological need for hope. “ We are inconsequential cosmic dust, bumping and milling about on a tiny blue speck. Or, as Manson so poetically puts it, imagining himself a rebellious barista leaving messages on coffee cups: See, says Manson, our whole lives are formed around our desire to avoid the uncomfortable truth: that, ultimately, human existence is meaningless. ![]() Pinker’s The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined and Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress), why does everything feel fucked? Why is extremism on the rise? Why are depression and suicide rates so high in developed countries? Ours is a crisis of hope. At a time when we have it better than ever before (see e.g. Now Manson turns his gaze at the world at large. Rather than seeking out happiness, we should pick our struggles: which pain are you willing to endure? Life is not fair and you will experience suffering. ![]() His previous book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, was a merciless slap in the face of the self-help industry and its “advice”: “follow your dreams”, “go with your gut feelings”, “think positive”. ![]() It was the counterintuitive advice in posts such as Love is not Enough and The Most Important Question of Your Life that got me hooked on his writing. My introduction to Manson was through his increasingly popular blog. “ Everything is Fucked: A Book about Hope“, written by Mark Manson, published by Harper in April 2019 (hardback, 275 pages) ![]()
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