I've been watching BBC's The Project which aired in 2002 – which is about the political climate of the Blair years in the UK.
As someone who wasn't alive then, I'm finding solace in the fact that many people did struggle then with exactly the same worries (disability benefit cuts, war, rampant digitisation, etc) – as we do now.
I've felt up until recently that the world has become more anxious, more nihilistic, more impersonal than ever before – and I'm pleasantly surprised (if that's the word for it) to find that this feeling isn't at all new.
I'm looking for a non-fiction book which encapsulates this feeling, of worrying that the world was losing its humanity (with the dawn of the Internet and mobile phones) and descending into unknowable chaos – a historical accounting would also be great.
Thanks!
by WallClimber1999
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No book but consider this, I’m a 20 yr subscriber to Time Magazine. I get the archives. So I read old articles about a certain time, like the Black Panthers in the 70s social movement, or my parents country dictatorship in the early 60s backed by the CIA. And it’s written in the context of that time.