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Notes on a Nervous Planet: Matt Haig

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Just think about the ice caps melting, robots taking our jobs or fake news stealing elections, and the world can start to seem like a pretty scary place. but presented together like this, your book beats against the shores of repetition to an irritating degree and adds nothing new to the current discussion about how to merge our physical reality with our online existence.

The problem becomes thornier when it comes to the matter of free trade; as the authors observe, “left-behind people live in left-behind places,” which explains why regional poverty descended on Appalachia when so many manufacturing jobs left for China in the age of globalism, leaving behind not just left-behind people but also people ripe for exploitation by nationalist politicians. He argues that the way we currently live is not sustainable and that we need to find ways to cope with the increasing levels of stress in our lives. So he decided to set aside his doctoral dissertation and belatedly prepare for medical school, which “would allow me a chance to find answers that are not in books, to find a different sort of sublime, to forge relationships with the suffering, and to keep following the question of what makes human life meaningful, even in the face of death and decay. Where we can just breathe, just be, just bathe in the simple animal contentment of being, and not crave anything except what we already have: life itself.Haig examines everything from broader phenomena like inequality, social media, and the news; to things closer to our daily lives, like how we sleep, how we exercise, and even the distinction we draw between our minds and our bodies. The aim of this book isn’t to say that everything is a disaster and we’re all screwed, because we already have Twitter for that,” he jokes; but nonetheless he is convinced that modern life, combined with the increasing pace of change, is doing unprecedented damage to our mental health. If you are Mexican or Turkish, you are likely to be fine about what you see in the mirror, as over 70 per cent of people there are ‘completely satisfied’ or ‘fairly satisfied’ with their looks.

Civilisation, which began in Mesopotamia (roughly Iraq and Syria on today’s map), is under 4,000 years old. Your not-so-distant ancestors wrote poems and acted courageously in wars and fell in love and danced and gazed wistfully at sunsets. i feel that pretty much sums up your argument about stepping away from the internet and marketing campaigns when they make you unhappy. Being mindful of what you do and how it makes you feel is the first step toward shifting your behavior for the better.Employment is becoming a dehumanising process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans.

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