The Shrinking Future
Why More and More People No Longer Expect Life to Get BetterBy Martin Halber
Length6h 43m
About this audiobook
The future has not disappeared. It has become smaller.
In The Shrinking Future, Martin Halber examines one of the defining hidden conditions of modern life. More and more people still move forward, still work, still plan, and still adapt, but no longer with the same belief that life will become wider, safer, fuller, or more stable than it is now.
This is not a book about one crisis. It is a book about what happens when housing, work, family, climate, and weakened public confidence all converge into one deeper experience. The horizon narrows. Possibility contracts. Tomorrow no longer feels like a place where life naturally opens.
Sharp, serious, and deeply recognitional, this audiobook gives language to the quiet grief of living under a future that feels smaller than it should.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government
Length6 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Shrinking Future
2Introduction - The Future Used to Feel Larger
3Chapter One - The Promise of Enlargement
4Chapter Two - How We Started Speaking Small
5Chapter Three - The Interior Contraction
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6Chapter Four - Labor Without Enlargement
7Chapter Five - The Weather Inside the Calendar
8Chapter Six - The Hesitation Before the Child
9Chapter Seven - The Institutions That No Longer Promise
10Chapter Eight - The Defensive Life
11Chapter Nine - The Inheritance of Less
12Chapter Ten - The Smaller Bequest
13Conclusion - Living Clearly Under a Smaller Sky
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