if you want to feel hopeful and unified with other humans
Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keene - if you want to feel the opposite of hope about the nature of humans - very interesting and important to learn about how the greed of the Sackler family, doctors, legislators and more contributed to the opioid crisis
Outline - Rachel Cusk - basically just a story of a woman having conversations with people about the human condition
Nov 27, 2024
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lovely commentary that makes you stop and think about the importance of the unimportant‼❤️
Jan 14, 2025
idk if we're doing Kindness Week—it seems like it—so I'm reccing this book which validated and rewired the way I see the world. It dismantles the assumptions people have about our base nature and helps you realize how many in power cherry pick data and tell a story that divides us by making us more fearful and distrustful of each other.
if you don't know Rutger, he's the guy who told the billionaires at Davos they were immoral hoarders of wealth and then made Tucker Carlson crash out.
May 13, 2025
Britt Wray is an accessible writer who touches upon a lot of topics that evoke climate anxiety — and how to deal with it. While writing it, she’s grappling with her own desire to bring kids into the world while knowing just how bad things have gotten. I was definitely avoidant of climate news before reading this, and now I feel like I have decent coping strategies and a renewed love for our planet.
Contemporary Western culture may not stand alone in its glaring alienation from nature, but many of us living in it are certainly unaware of the effects of this alienation. We have grown to become what the mythologist and psychologist Sharon Blackie calls "disenchanted." When we no longer see every bird, tree, or ladybug as worthy of our interest and engagement, we lose some of our own vibrancy as a living thing on this Earth. The prevailing view that says humans are at the top of the chain, in a superior category all our own, is emphatically unenchanted.
And so, what the radical danger of this ecological moment calls on us to do is to muster whatever forces we can to close the chasm or separation. Stopping to notice the beauty and intelligence of creatures beyond one's small human constellation brings sincere, profound connection.
Jul 30, 2024
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Apr 30, 2025
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today someone told me something about myself and they were just so completely off base that i started questioning my tone and facial expressions bc that was in no way the vibe i was going for
a related anti rec: people who meet you once and assume that they know everything about you (which they obviously don’t)
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