Serotonin: Loneliness, Desire, and the Collapse of Meaning

This is NOT an online meeting but an in-person meeting.
Reading the book is not required.

During the book discussion the leader of the discussion presents the most interesting parts of the book. The great emphasis is placed on discussion.

Book Description
In Serotonin, Michel Houellebecq presents a quietly devastating portrait of a man drifting through modern France—medicated, detached, and unable to connect. Beneath the personal story lies a broader diagnosis of Western society: alienation, sexual economics, agricultural decline, and emotional paralysis. This discussion explores whether the novel is merely pessimistic—or a brutally honest account of contemporary loneliness and the slow erosion of meaning.

Discussion Topics

• Depression as personal illness vs. social symptom
• Love, desire, and the “market logic” of relationships
• Masculinity, failure, and emotional avoidance
• Medication and the numbing of experience
• Is Houellebecq cynical, prophetic, or both?
• Can intimacy survive hyper-individualistic society?