When the societal paralysis of despair leads humanity into a dark age, optimism itself becomes a radical concept. If we are to survive as a species, we must regain our ability to imagine a future. We must re-energize ourselves to be better not just as people but as a species. The book we need at this time. An instruction manual for saving the world. Award-winning playwright, author, humorist and filmmaker Dylan Brody turns his attention to the serious matter of the world as it and the world as it can be. At the end of a dark age, Mr. Brody has posited, comes a renaissance. When he began writing, he had forgotten that in between a plague arises. This salient self-help book for a self-sabotaging civilization takes on the status quo and, more interestingly, or commitment to it. Treating this global pandemic not as a terrible tragedy but as an inflection point in history, this book reminds us that when we have the opportunity to change the world for the better we must engage our best and brightest selves to accomplish the task

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