The House on Sand : Why Modern Life Feels So Fragile

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Neuware - We are the best-informed, best-supplied, longest-living human beings who have ever existed, and a startling number of us go through the day with the quiet sense that the floor is not entirely attached to the building. Not fear of anything nameable. Just a low hum underneath an ordinary Tuesday, the feeling of standing on something that is holding for now.This book argues that the feeling is not neurotic, not nostalgic, and not a failure of gratitude. It is an accurate reading of a real change, filed under the wrong heading.Two houses in an old story are hit by the same storm. Nobody gets better weather. The difference between them is invisible in fair conditions and total when the water arrives, and it comes down to something unglamorous: one builder did the work, the other only heard about it. That distinction turns out to describe an astonishing amount of contemporary life. Our savings, our skills, our friendships, our beliefs, our insurance, our institutions, our sense of who would show up for us at two in the morning - a great many of these are held in the declared form rather than the done form. Declared foundations cost nothing to lay, look identical to real ones in good weather, and are missing at exactly the moment weight is applied.Anna Kriger takes the reader through the anatomy of that substitution with wit, unsentimental clarity, and a refusal to sell either panic or reassurance. She examines why knowing about a thing has come to feel like having it, why anxiety often functions as a well-calibrated instrument that we insist on misreading, why disaster is always preceded by the sensation that yesterday everything was fine, and why the deep and unrewarding work of digging down to rock has almost no market value until the one day it has all of it.The storm is not the subject of this book. Storms are permanent, universal, and entirely uninterested in our preferences. What can be changed is what is underneath us when one arrives - and the change is smaller, more concrete, and more available than the scale of the anxiety suggests.A book for anyone who has everything they were told to want and still sleeps badly.Keywords: fragility, resilience, modern anxiety, self-knowledge, uncertainty, practical philosophy, meaning.…

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Título
The House on Sand : Why Modern Life Feels So Fragile
Autor
Anna Kriger
Editorial
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Jul 2026
Año de publicación
2026
Estado
Neu
Encuadernación
Taschenbuch
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 13
9798188715489
Peso del artículo
376 gramos
Dimensiones
229x152x15 mm

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