Have We Lost The Plot?

Have We Lost the Plot?

Reclaiming the Power of Story in an Age of Noise, Technology, and Transformation

We are living through a crisis of memory. Our stories, once carried in the cadence of voices and stored in the marrow of bones, now flicker across screens and dissolve into data. We communicate endlessly, yet understand each other less with each passing day. We share our lives in curated fragments while our truths remain unspoken, buried beneath the performance of connection.

Something essential is slipping away. In the rush toward progress, we have traded the hearth for the timeline, the circle for the feed. We mistake visibility for intimacy and noise for meaning. The screens we worship glow brighter than any fire our ancestors gathered around, yet they cannot warm us. They cannot remember us. They cannot hold the weight of what it means to be human.

Have We Lost the Plot? It is a meditation on storytelling as the oldest and most sacred form of preservation. It is a call to remember that before there were algorithms, there were voices. Before there was content, there was truth. Before we learned to perform our lives, we knew how to live them.

Monica Wisdom invites us into the conversation we have been avoiding. With the precision of a cultural observer and the heart of a storyteller, she traces how story has always been the code that keeps us human. It is not entertainment. It is an instruction. It is the invisible architecture that connects us across generations, the thread that reminds us we are not alone.

This book asks urgent questions. What happens when memory becomes mechanical? When empathy is replaced by efficiency? When the stories that once lived in our bodies are reduced to captions designed for consumption? What do we lose when we forget how to witness one another, when we stop listening long enough to truly hear?

Wisdom does not offer comfortable answers. Instead, she offers something far more valuable: a path back to ourselves. Through four elegantly woven movements, she explores story as both mirror and map. She examines the silence growing between us, the loneliness we refuse to name, and the missing conversation that has left us starving for real connection in a world built on shallow engagement.

Part memoir, part manifesto, part meditation, this book reveals how the act of storytelling can restore what technology has fractured. It teaches us to reframe the narratives we carry, to craft what Wisdom calls the Signature Story, the living record of who we are and what we have survived. It challenges us to build a Legacy Economy where humanity becomes the measure of wealth and meaning replaces the metrics that leave us empty.

This is not a book about writing. It is a book about remembering. About reclaiming the pulse beneath the performance. About choosing depth over speed, truth over trends, legacy over likes. It is for the woman who feels her voice disappearing, for the creator exhausted by the demand to produce, for anyone who longs to be seen without having to shrink.

Wisdom writes with the kind of clarity that cuts through noise and lands directly in the heart. Her prose moves like poetry, unhurried and intentional, mirroring the slowness she calls us back toward. She weaves her own story, her travels across continents, her memories of elders who taught her the power of narrative, into a larger tapestry about what we are collectively losing and what we must fight to preserve.

This is literature for the moment we are living through. It arrives at the intersection of our deepest need and our greatest forgetting. In an age of artificial intelligence and algorithmic thinking, when our experiences are harvested as data and our emotions measured in engagement, this book dares to ask: What does it mean to remain fully human? What stories will we leave behind when the noise finally quiets?

Have We Lost the Plot? It is an act of resistance disguised as reflection. It refuses to let us disappear quietly into the machine. It insists that our stories matter, that our humanity is worth preserving, that the voices we carry deserve to echo beyond this moment.

For readers who hunger for substance in an age of surfaces. For anyone who has felt their soul growing quieter beneath the constant demand for more. For the woman who knows she carries wisdom but has forgotten how to speak it. For every person who suspects we are trading something irreplaceable for something that will never satisfy.

This book will not make you more productive. It will make you more present. It will not teach you to optimize your story. It will teach you to honor it. It will remind you that you are not content to be consumed but a human being worthy of being remembered.

Your story is not a brand. It is a birthright. Your voice is not a commodity. It is a gift. Your life is not data. It is sacred.

This is your invitation to remember.

About Monica Wisdom

Monica Wisdom is a writer, storyteller, and cultural observer whose work lives at the intersection of narrative, identity, and healing. She is the founder of Black Women Amplified, a global platform dedicated to preserving and amplifying the stories of Black women with the depth and dignity they deserve. Her writing has been called necessary, unflinching, and profoundly human. She believes that storytelling is not simply an art form but a survival strategy, and that in reclaiming our voices, we reclaim our power.

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storytelling and memory, narrative identity, cultural commentary, technology and humanity, Black women writers, legacy and purpose, authentic voice, human connection, contemporary nonfiction, personal transformation