de Botton of de Barrel

Honestly, I didn’t make this up…

“Spend a night with Alain de Botton, internationally renowned philosopher (sic), television presenter and author of international best sellers Essays in Love, How Proust Can Change Your Life and Status Anxiety as he discusses his stunning new novel The Course of Love, a philosophical novel about modern relationships.

Twenty-first century depictions of love and marriage are shaped by a set of Romantic myths and misconceptions and with his trademark warmth and wit, Alain de Botton explores the complex landscape of a modern relationship, presenting a realistic case study for marriage and examining what it might mean to love, to be loved – and to stay in love.”

I interpret this as:

1. Mental sugar for
2. Simple people (mostly women in this case) that
3. Have shit marriages and
4. Need to have their fears assuaged by
5. Surrounding themselves with a lot of nodding people
6. That have the the same problems, and
7. Are listening to the same shit, and
8. Like the feeling of safety in the numbers, and
9. Then have something to post on Facebook that
10. Creates the impression they are ‘onto it’, and
11. Then going home and changing nothing