00:005 Stapici Books to Read If You Want to Improve Your Mental Health
00:03If you needed another reason to be angry at the patriarchy, then read Everything and None
00:08Here the future is just an excuse to talk about the present
00:11There is a society in which women's bodies are something to be controlled and exploited.
00:15It's an alien creature that observes humans trying to understand how we can be capable of this at the same time.
00:21the most beautiful and the most atrocious thing
00:23It's a book full of tragedies and very political.
00:26It leaves you with an uncomfortable question
00:27And what if dystopia wasn't what awaits us, but what in some ways we are already experiencing?
00:32If you survived the pandemic and want to get anxious about the next one
00:36Saramago's Bitch
00:37A sudden epidemic blinds an entire city and within a very short time everything we call civilization collapses.
00:43The most disturbing part, however, is not the disease itself, but seeing how little it takes to make people stop behaving like this.
00:49from people
00:50After reading it you will begin to look askance at the idea that society would hold up anyway.
00:55If you think there's one thing society would never normalize, then read exquisite corpse.
00:59Here cannibalism has become a perfectly legal industry
01:02It seems absurd until you realize that the book isn't actually about cannibalism.
01:07It talks about how good we are at turning any horror into something acceptable.
01:11As long as it has a fancy name and gets the economy going
01:14It's disgusting and that's the point.
01:16If you want to know what remains of the human being when nothing remains, then read the road
01:21A father and son walk through a world that has now ended.
01:24Don't expect any plot twists or action scenes because nothing happens.
01:28But it destroys you with a disarming simplicity
01:30It makes you wonder if in a world without rules you would still be capable of being a good person.
01:35But it destroys you with a person
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