It’s a core anxiety of our age. In our current global reality, you feel like bad things are happening and there’s nothing you can do about it…but also, you feel like you can’t just stand by and watch. You need to do something, you just don’t know what... This might be an unexpected plot twist, but hear me out. With all of the garbage going on, it’s a great time to familiarize yourself with the first truly American philosophical movement–the Transcendentalists.