For the last few decades we have been fed the idea that if we are not optimistic, then that automatically makes us pessimistic. Neoliberal politics, the absurd moral values that seem to act as its wingman, and the imposed zeitgeist of “don’t be a killjoy”, have all made us forget that in the wide gap between optimism and pessimism there is realism. Dichotomies are for children and we have been infantilized in our perception of the self and the world for a long time. All this is to say, ‘Let’s get real.’ This is not a book about how and why we fucked things up, and how we were allured to do so (although I’ll get that out of the way in the introduction). This book will instead focus on what we do now, and how we start to actually build a new political narrative (as opposed to just talking about how we need to find one). It’s a book that looks at the view point ‘I want things to change but I don’t know how’ and says ‘enough’.