What's Our Problem?

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>From the creator of the wildly popular blog <em>Wait But Why</em> a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange unprecedented modern times.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Between 2013 and 2016 Tim Urban became one of the world's most popular bloggers writing dozens of viral long-form articles about 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 </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>do</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> this stuff?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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: </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What's our problem?</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Six years later he emerged from the hole holding this book. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What's Our Problem?</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a deep and expansive analysis of our modern times in the classic style of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wait But Why</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> packed with original concepts sticky metaphors and 300 drawings. The book provides an entirely new framework and language for thinking and talking about today's complex world. Instead of focusing on the usual left-center-right horizontal political axis which is all about </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>what</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> we think the book introduces a vertical axis that explores </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>how</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> 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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p>(Note: There are over 100 pages of endnotes for this book so to keep costs for the paperback as low as possible we've put those pages online. Endnotes are printed in full in the hardcover edition.)</p>