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

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Are You a Slacker Revolutionary or a Social Problem?

The inverse image from what you see with the slacker revolutionary that you saw in some films that were released around the time of this book was also the resurgence of mythological figures in pop cinema. And I think these two guys areas that you can see expressed the real tension in our culture that he's talking about in this book, right? On the one hand, some people see being a burnout as a revolutionary act precisely because they choose not to self enslave at least in the kind of way that's talked about in thisbook. And then they're just becoming the slaves to their own habits, right, or to various forms of substance abuse.

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