Fighting Fake News, Tribalism, and Doomscrolling with 400-Year-Old Wisdom
How do you survive an age where truth is optional, outrage is currency, and stupidity has gone pro?
You bring Shakespeare?wry, sharp, and unsparing.
How Shakespeare Can Save the World is a satirical piece of literary nonfiction that borrows Shakespeare's wisdom?and King Lear's Fool's tongue?to diagnose our era's most contagious disease: organized, weaponized stupidity.
With the Bard's unnervingly sharp eye for human nature, the book throws a stage light on our modern plagues?from climate inertia and algorithmic echo chambers to populist theatrics, neofascism, and the wedding-from-hell between Big Tech and Big State. Our crises aren't new; they're old plots, badly restaged.
It's a return to the one man who understood human foolishness better than any algorithm ever will.
Here, the 21st century isn't a brave new world but an old play in a shinier theatre. Shakespeare becomes an X-ray, exposing our modern cast of power-drunk Macbeths, whispering Iagos, and Hamlets paralysed before planetary collapse.
The Bard didn't just mock our madness; he armed us against it?with empathy, attention, imagination, and a spine that won't fold when truth goes out of fashion. And if we're going to duel with mobilized stupidity?and duel we must?we'll want an ally who's read this script before.
Part satire, part cultural diagnosis, part rallying cry, this book builds toward one heretical claim:
The cure for our global chaos isn't more data?it's wiser storytelling.