The lit circle book that I read, The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria, is very similar to the book that Sarah read, The Shallows: What The Internet is Doing to Our Brains.
In her blog, Sarah wrote, "We need not to be followers but artists. Not confused but confident. When given the chance to create do so, and when given the chance to follow your own creation hold no fear, don’t hold back on what is rightfully yours." This idea is very similar to one that omnipresent in my book. Zakaria often wrote about how the United States needs to challenge the status quo of the world in order to keep its superpower status. The US, however, is holding back and sticking to the safe way it's been going for the past 100 years. The US needs to take the first big step forward and start creating new standards for life in the US. People need to start thinking about jobs that aren't just in the manufacturing industry, but in the innovation industry.
Zakaria also writes about how the other countries of the world are catching up to the United States' standards. They are doing this through adjacent possibles like the internet. The rest of the world has seen how the people in the United States are living and they want to live like that too. Sarah also mentions that people tend to follow the maps that are laid out for them. They don't like to stray from those maps. Zakaria talks about how the US is comfortable doing things the way we've always done them, but that won't work forever. Overall, the ideas mentioned in The Shallows are very similar to the ones that Zakaria mentions in The Post-American World.
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