Over the last few years, George Monbiot - one of the Guardian's most prominent journalists - has become one of the most acute and reflexive dissenting voices worldwide. By means of a great theoretical and historical formation, an extremely original thought and the courage to go against the grain even in terms of causes widely supported by progressive sectors, Monbiot is already an indisputable referent to understand the mechanisms of power of the last decades produced by the reality so convulsive and unequal that is lived today practically in all the countries of the West. How did we get into this mess? he recovered his journalistic writings on the most pressing issues of our time, with particular emphasis on the ideology and implementation of the neoliberal project, the main culprit of the excessive concentration of wealth in a few hands, as well as various political and environmental catastrophes produced by a system that considers that the accumulation of profits is the essential value around which the life in society must be structured. And one of the main tasks to imagine a different future, in Monbiot's opinion, is to understand its effectiveness at the level of consciousness, since neoliberalism has become so omnipresent that it is practically no longer considered an ideology. How did we get into this mess? provides an excellent road map to understand the main difficulties faced by all who are willing to listen to our current reality is the only possible.