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Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World by Dorian Lynskey
4.75
challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Massive interdisciplinary work examining cultural artifacts from the Old Testament to White Lotus. Optimistic despite its subject matter because there’s something comforting in the fact that worrying about the end of the world seems to have been omnipresent throughout human history, that every generation has had moments of existential fear that have been survived as a species. The epilogue made me cry in public. Rather than embracing nihilism, he shows how the impulse we all seem to have when faced with the end of things is love and how who we are to other people is all that matters in the end. 
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