The Reality Bubble

This book is full of interesting thoughts and tidbits, but ultimately lacking structure and a clear focus. Yes, we have many blindspots, but biological blindspots are very different to willful or forced-upon blindspots. Our senses and brains create a very specific umwelt for us that hides many aspects of reality that science now can reveal. But the realities that a capitalist society chooses to obscure (the meat industry, plumbing, finance, climate..) are created, and we are mostly happy to ignore them.

This book reads like snippets of many other books I've recently read, and I can't blame it for that, because these are all good topics to attack. But it absolutely didn't need those two chapters on the history of measuring time and space.