current ways of life

When our current ways of life prove unsustainable, you might think that we could just change them – after all, there are many worthwhile ways to live, and being forced to change is often a blessing in disguise. But if our current way of life has become part of who we think we are, then changing it means losing our being; it might as well be death.

• Against Identity The Wisdom of Escaping the Self, Alexander Douglas (2025, a nice edition from Penguin, nice paper, nice font, flexiable back, why aren’t all books like that).

BTW the book includes history and references about Zhuangzi, and it has the audacity to include original Chinese spelling of names and terms, both in the main text, the notes, the bibliography and the index. How did he get his editor and publisher to allow this?