Psychology Today | 13.06.2026 23:00
This week, over dinner, a friend and I started talking about Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha –a book we had both read several times over the years, at different ages, for different reasons. Somewhere between courses, the conversation shifted. While the subject remained the same, we were no longer discussing a novel. We were discussing the world today. And by the time the plates had cleared, we agreed that a book written over one hundred years ago described our present moment more clearly than most things written this year—and that it had something very important to tell us about living in that moment.
