“Imagining bad futures creates fear and fear creates bad futures”
The Future by Naomi Alderman was an incredibly intelligent and well delivered look at what some possible outcomes of our world could be. The beginning was a bit tricky to get into as we are meeting all the players and hopping a little bit in the timeline, but I promise you, once things start to unravel, it happens very, very quickly.
If you knew the end of the world was coming, would you save yourself and let the rest of humanity suffer the consequences? Would you take a golden ticket to ensure you made it through the end of humanity as we know it? These are some of the questions that come up while reading this incredible book. I almost forgot for a few chapters that I was reading a fiction and was so sucked into this potential future of our planet.
If you want to read a very realistic and deep dive discussion into what makes humans think and respond, I highly suggest this book. You might have some uncomfortable moments are you debate whether it is better to sacrifice the few to save the many. Are you a fox? Or are you a rabbit?
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