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Pill Pod 27 - BURNOUT SOCIETY by Byung-Chul Han *UNLOCKED*

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Heidegger's Boredom

Schopenhauer says boredom shows you how life is not worth living by itself, because being bored is essentially having nothing but life and time available to you. Heidegger says the mood of boredom is like allowing the world to retreat from you as if you could seize upon it, but you kind of let it go. Our threshold for boredom is so low that we can't even watch old movies anymore. But I set you up, Eric, for your favorite quote.

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