Are you losing faith in humanity and tempted to disengage from the world? It would be understandable. From war in Ukraine to escalating tensions between China and the United States, from the climate emergency to the cost-of-living crisis, from obscene inequality to paralysing isolation and loneliness, there’s so much to deal with – and so much that can seem out of our control. I’ve heard people say that this feels like a time of collapse: we humans are breaking ourselves, each other and our planet.