The Manual for a Broken Species: As if aliens wrote a postmortem for humanity

By Matt Shlosberg

The Manual for a Broken Species is a brutally funny, painfully honest roast of humanity. If aliens ever landed on Earth and asked, "So what's wrong with these people?"-this book would be the field guide.

From nationalism to dating apps, from luxury handbags to the obsession with youth, it tears into the absurd rituals, scams, and self-delusions humans cling to with religious devotion. Nothing is safe: not money, not politics, not the self-help industry, not even Jesus (arguably the greatest franchise of all time).

Why do people worship flags? Why is a mortgage just a lifetime sentence dressed up as "ownership"? Why do professors write unread papers while "thought leaders" publish books nobody buys? And why, for the love of Wi-Fi, do we keep buying bottled water when it literally falls from the sky?

With biting satire and sharp wit, the author exposes how civilization is built on a patchwork of scams, traditions, and collective mental blocks. You'll laugh, you'll cringe, and you'll maybe recognize yourself in the madness.

This isn't a self-help book-it's an un-help book. A mirror held up to the species that invented fast food, nuclear weapons, and Instagram filters... and still calls itself "intelligent."

If you've ever wondered whether humans are doomed, stupid, or both-this book has the answers (and the punchlines).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FNLGNTXT
• ISBN13: 9798299458534
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"