We Did This to Ourselves: A Darkly Funny Guide to the Collapse We Ordered with Free Shipping

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We have more information than any generation in history, yet we are increasingly unsure what is true. We are constantly connected, yet loneliness is everywhere. We have technology designed to save time, but somehow we have less of it. We buy things to feel better, work ourselves into exhaustion to pay for them, argue with strangers online for entertainment, and hand our attention over to algorithms that have become frighteningly good at knowing what makes us click.

Then we look around and ask what happened.

WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES: A Darkly Funny Guide to the Collapse We Ordered with Free Shipping is a sharp, darkly humorous examination of the strange contradictions defining modern life.

This is not a book about some mysterious enemy coming to destroy civilization.

The uncomfortable premise is much closer to home.

What if we are doing a pretty good job of destroying it ourselves?

With biting humor, cultural observation, and plenty of moments that may make you laugh before realizing you are slightly implicated, this book explores the habits and systems quietly reshaping society from within.

Inside, you’ll find chapters examining:

• The attention economy and how our minds became the product
• Outrage culture and the addiction to being furious
• How convenience can quietly become helplessness
• Consumerism, debt, and the endless pursuit of more
• Why we can have hundreds of online friends and still feel alone
• Hustle culture, burnout, and the worship of productivity
• Education, misinformation, and the collapse of judgment
• Algorithms, artificial intelligence, and personalized reality
• Social media, personal branding, and the pressure to perform our lives
• Why civilization still depends on ordinary people giving a damn

This book is funny because some of what we are doing is absurd.

It is uncomfortable because some of it is true.

And it is ultimately hopeful because if human choices helped create many of these problems, human choices can also begin changing them.

WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES is for readers who enjoy provocative social commentary, dark humor, cultural criticism, modern philosophy, technology, psychology, politics, and books that make you stop halfway through a paragraph and think, Well… damn.

Because collapse may not arrive with sirens.

It may arrive with everything still working — just a little worse every year.

And perhaps the first step toward fixing it is admitting that the problem is closer to home than we would like.

Author: Michelle Hoffmann
Format: Digital Book / eBook
Delivery: Instant digital access after purchase
Language: English