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tovac 's review for:
Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
by Mark Manson
Three initial thoughts:
1. Did I really just listen to this whole book only to have this man conclude that AI takeover to the point that we deify them is inevitable AND the most likely outcome for our society?
2. I need to stop reading/listening to things written by relatively well-off and privileged men.
3. This is only my "first" read of the year because it took me so long to finish it and I am lowkey bitter about it.
I picked this read because I don't remember The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck being as laughably bad as this book was. There are a few morsels of interesting thought in the book, I will give him that, but overall it is a ham-fisted approach to analyzing humanity that lacks nuance or self-awareness. This specific brand of affluent male nihilism always leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Probably because it is just them telling on themselves about how little they understand anyone else's lived experience and how those experiences might differ from their own. This read really wasn't it for me. I expected to find it at the very least an interesting thing to read during the pandemic since it came out pre-pandemic. Instead, I was subjected to thoughts such as (all paraphrases) "centrism is the mature approach to existence" and "the pursuit of pain is something we should revere" and "most crises are statistically insignificant". Gag.
1. Did I really just listen to this whole book only to have this man conclude that AI takeover to the point that we deify them is inevitable AND the most likely outcome for our society?
2. I need to stop reading/listening to things written by relatively well-off and privileged men.
3. This is only my "first" read of the year because it took me so long to finish it and I am lowkey bitter about it.
I picked this read because I don't remember The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck being as laughably bad as this book was. There are a few morsels of interesting thought in the book, I will give him that, but overall it is a ham-fisted approach to analyzing humanity that lacks nuance or self-awareness. This specific brand of affluent male nihilism always leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Probably because it is just them telling on themselves about how little they understand anyone else's lived experience and how those experiences might differ from their own. This read really wasn't it for me. I expected to find it at the very least an interesting thing to read during the pandemic since it came out pre-pandemic. Instead, I was subjected to thoughts such as (all paraphrases) "centrism is the mature approach to existence" and "the pursuit of pain is something we should revere" and "most crises are statistically insignificant". Gag.