Optimism (The Rise of Self-Consciousness)

In this day and age, it is hard to keep in touch with optimism. The next generation of Homo Sapiens always seems to be slightly more worried than the previous one. The youth is more depressed than ever before, and everyone wants to understand the underpinning reasons.

This book is a very brief, yet meaningful exploration of the basis of unhappiness in the 21st century. The vastness of lies and fictitious stories told since millennia, the countless masked delusions presented to us through a balance of benefits and drawbacks, all contributing to the incomprehensible complexity of the current everyday life on Earth. All indicates a lack of self-consciousness, which is constantly taken away from each following generation, due to advancements making their life easier century after century.

Coping abilities have vanished. Adaptation has taken a psychological form, leaving physical strength behind and into the jungle. With hardly any jungle left on this planet, our species today is disconnected to reality, with our individual emotions connected instead to the fictitious “happy ending” existing uniquely in our minds.