Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
Fella goes off and travels the world.
Yeah this one's a banger! Classic for a reason.
It's amazing, or maybe not-amazing, how many of Swift's objects of satire are the same things (i.m.o) fucking up our lives today -- corrupt and greedy elites running society for their own benefit, etc. Depending on the moment I either felt
1) that this means the problems are basically insoluble, or
2) that I should try harder to design creative/original mechanisms for trying to solve such problems, because just doing "more of the same" won't work.
But I don't know, I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be, etc