Humans: Still Fucked Up

A Field Guide to Weird Ass Human Shit

Congratulations. You're human.

Unfortunately, that makes studying humans a little difficult.

Imagine asking a fish to describe water. The fish wouldn't notice the water because it's always been there. Humans have the same problem with culture. We swim through invisible stories, symbols, rituals, identities, traditions, institutions, and shared agreements every day without realizing we're surrounded by them.

This book is an invitation to notice the water.

Presented as the official training manual from the entirely fictional—and disturbingly accurate—Department of Weird Ass Human Shit, this field guide examines the ordinary behaviors humans perform every day and asks a deceptively simple question:

How did an ape come to believe all of this was completely normal?

Inside you'll investigate:

• Why money works despite existing largely through shared belief.
• How love becomes an entire civilization built between two people.
• Why fashion is really a language made from cloth.
• How religion, politics, bureaucracy, meetings, advertising, social media, and birthdays reveal the remarkable machinery of human culture.
• Why stories, symbols, rituals, belonging, identity, and shared imagination quietly organize nearly every aspect of modern life.

Written with dry humor, anthropology, psychology, history, and equal parts affection and disbelief, Humans: Still Fucked Up isn't about mocking humanity.

It's about becoming astonished by it. Because humans are one of the only species capable of inventing entire worlds that exist only because everyone agrees they do...

...and then forgetting they invented them.

Welcome to the Department.

Your training as an Observer begins now.

Department Filing Fee: $19.99
Includes one official Field Guide and lifetime authorization & handbook to notice Weird Ass Human Shit.