Laura’s Reviews > How to Survive the Modern World: Making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times > Status Update

Really enjoying this so far.

“Modernity has connected us to others like never before, but it has also left us emotionally bereft, perhaps late at night, on our own, in a corner of a diner, like a figure in an Edward Hopper painting, staring out at the darkness… We fall asleep in high-rise apartments with views onto the distant headquarters of banks and wonder if anyone would notice if we died.”