num_pages: 746
description: From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange unprecedented modern times.Between 2013 and 2016 Tim Urban became one of the worlds most popular bloggers writing dozens of viral long-form articlesabout everything from AI to colonizing Mars to procrastination. Then he turned his attention to a new topic: the society around him. Why was everything such a mess? Why was everyone acting like such a baby? When did things get so tribal? Why do humans do this stuff?This massive topic sent Tim tumbling down his deepest rabbit hole yet through mountains of history evolutionary psychology political theory neuroscience and modern-day political movements as he tried to figure out the answer to a simple question: Whats our problem?Six years later he emerged from the hole holding this book. Whats Our Problem? is a deep and expansive analysis of our modern times in the classic style of Wait But Why packed with original concepts sticky metaphors and 300 drawings. The book provides an entirely new framework and language for thinking and talking about todays complex world. Instead of focusing on the usual left-center-right horizontal political axis which is all about what we think the book introduces a verticalaxis that explores how we think as individuals and as groups. Readers will find themselves on a delightful and fascinating journey that will ultimately change the way they see the world around them.Anyway he wanted to say a lot more about all of this but there was a word limit on this book description so just go read the book.
language: English
title: What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
publisher: None