this is a warm hug—kicking your feet and giggling—“something is in my eye, I swear!”—I love when love™️—sweet, cozy romance that reminds us to try, always, to find our magic. 💖

i picked up this book due to a recommendation as a starting point for de-growth in consumption, capitalism, and fighting climate change. after finishing, i'm unsure if this is a great starting point, but it's a useful manifesto nonetheless. Kōhei Saitō condenses decades of work on climate change, marxism and capitalism, and the fight for mutual aid in a short, declarative argument on how global countries need to change our consumption and our relationship to the environment. most of this is digestible, though Kōhei relies majority of his argument on Karl Marx's ideology and a new perspective of his work. my very general, very surface level knowledge of marxism was enough to float by, but affected my agreement with this being a starting point to learn about degrowth. this was more focused on what's not working, what got us here, and where does that leave us? this is a call to action to save our planet, save our global neighbors, and to save our collect future.

The true magic is that everyone lacks a sense of smell because all those books full of really old blood must reek