America: Alcohol & Bad Decisions: A National Trauma Response
America isn't just stressed.
America is coping.
With alcohol.
With shopping.
With gambling.
With debt.
With "treat yourself" delusion and productivity worship.
AMERICA: Alcohol & Bad Decisions: A National Trauma Response is a sharp, hilarious, painfully honest memoir-meets-social commentary for anyone who has ever looked around and thought:
"Is it just me... or is this whole thing not okay?"
In these pages, Gigi Wong breaks down the cultural chaos of late-stage empire with humor, clarity, and a nervous-system-level truth that hits you right in the chest. From productivity worship to emotional overdraft, from socially-approved dissociation to the "American Dream(TM)" fine print-this book names what so many people feel, but can't quite say out loud.
It's not polished.
It's not performative.
It's real.
This isn't a self-help book.
It's a wake-up call.
And somehow, it's also a love letter.
Inside you'll find:
- Why alcohol is the most socially acceptable way to disappear
- How gambling sells hope back to people who are exhausted
- Why shopping became therapy in a society that won't provide real care
- The "Suffering Box" and the lie that pain is a credential
- Individuation, nervous system regulation, and the cost of becoming real
- Mutual aid, empire mechanics, and staying human with receipts
- Why the future is small, local, sacred-and already happening
If you've ever been called too sensitive, maybe you're not.
Maybe you're just awake.
And if you're reading this...
you're already free.
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