I know the title is overly dramatic, but with the current state of things it sometimes feels like it.
What are your suggestions in a time where the quality of life is dropping for most people, climate change is threatening our future, war, xenophobia and tribalism is on the rise?
Add to the fact that there is a global elite literally trafficking children and doing unspeakable things and no one is being held accountable.
What are your suggestions?
It can be fiction or non-fiction, books for coping with the current situation or books that help you deal with the world seemingly falling apart. Even books about how to build a better society.
I know my request is pretty broad, but I am interested in what you would suggest to someone who feels like the world is falling apart.
Thank you!
by angry_voices
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I really enjoyed “the book of joy” which is basically a long conversation between Desmond tutu and Dalai Lama. The audiobook is well done too
My Friends by Fredrik Backman had a healthy balance of realism, optimism, and insight for me (CW: domestic violence and off the page CSA). It gave me a sense of hope and vision after reading it.
Might sound like a weird suggestion, but I actually found *Cults Like Us* by Jane Borden to be a weirdly hopeful read. It breaks down the core tenants of a cult, uses specific examples of more well-known cults (Landmark, Love Has Won, etc.), and relates it all back to the the founding of the modern United States/our current socio-political climate. Cults don’t really grab my attention like they do for some people, but I **really** enjoyed this and again found it weirdly optimistic – grifters have, in fact, been around forever and it felt like it provided some really good context that helps explain our modern hellscape.