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

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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The Last Gasp of the Disciplined Society

The disciplinary society produces hysterics because, you know, you have to follow your social role. But when you have no social roles defined, what you have is infinite freedom and infinite freedom is bad for. I mean, it's not bad necessarily it's what causes a depressive state,. Because that's like the street, the spring now has been stretched out so that there's no more springiness in it. The exhaustion is the spring being stretched out because you have nothing, the no limit to push against. So when you have nothing to push against, then it becomes well what the hell do I do I can wake up with an infinity of opportunity.

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