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

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Is There Something to Live Up To?

There is still a kind of pressure to be like, well you can't just be this ordinary person. The thing that's different there is that one is saying you can't do something or even you shouldn't do something like a moral imperative. For a woman 100 years ago it's you can't go to university, but now the difference is you should go to university so one is drawing a negative restriction. So it's demanding that you use your freedom rather than saying you cannot do anything and that would be the negative.

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