The World Is Never Enough: A Journey to the Heart of 21st Century Human

This book started out as a series of scribblings to myself; as a way to express and somehow exorcise that relentless, frustrated urging that I sometimes feel on waking, and which I escape from only at night through an exhaustion that enables sleep to close over the same unyielding activity.This is for those who similarly have trouble sleeping; who ‘feel the weight of the world’ bearing down on them. It is for those who feel an ambition that reaches beyond the workaday.It is not ambition in the narrow sense that it is generally used that keeps one awake thus. It is a more global ambition; it is the desire to lie on the deathbed, look at one’s own past and declare, as King Ozymandias did, “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” Yet, this unsleeping ambition is tainted by bitterness. As the subject of Shelley’s poem did, we too will one day be submerged beneath history. Worse, this obscuration will happen only should our works be amongst those rarities that reach any level of renown in our own era at all. For the vast, unrecognised majority of us nothing that comes from us will ever need to be forgotten by the world.This book searches for the soul of the individual amidst all this existential chaos and emotion.