What We Leave Behind

I need to test a content-based link and I believe the first thing I should do is recommend a book that has deeply affected my life.

What We Leave Behind is the story of disposable culture. Jensen and McBay pull no punches in their indictment of industrial capitalism. This is the most insightful and brutally honest book I've read. The accounts within are shocking and wonderfully arranged. The bitter sarcasm is, at times, laugh-out-loud funny while other stories had me withholding sobs in public. Much of the time I was reading this I felt rage toward the ignorance that persists in this world, but it ends on a zen-like note that comforts subtly. For anyone who is even mildly aware of the side effects of industrial capitalism, this book will confront misconceptions and put you in the mindset to affect meaningful change. The future is very dark, to say the least, if the message of this book goes unnoticed.