"The Burnout Society" is the work of Han Bingzhe, a new generation of German thinker and philosopher. In addition to this book, "The Disappearance of the Other" and "The Death of Love and Desire" are also books that you want to read. A small part of the book "The Burnout Society" mentions related content: the subject does not follow the instructions of others, but obeys itself more; the intensity of life gradually weakens, transforms into consumption and social interaction, and love gives way to the porn industry.
"The Burnout Society" was published in 2019. The author begins with this book and says that we still have a strong fear of large flu, but we are no longer in the era of viruses. His view is that depression , attention deficits, fatigue syndrome and borderline personality disorder will be the disease patterns that dominate the early 21st century.
However, the epidemic broke out in 2020. Some experts say that humans may coexist with viruses.
now means that the coexistence of two modes, which are both threats to physical health and invasion of various mental illnesses.
Do you often feel tired, powerless, guilty, lack, fatigue and alienation? And it’s not like this for one person or two people; it’s not just once or twice. So think about it, it’s probably a social disease.
The author said that the 21st century is no longer a society of discipline, but a society of meritorious deeds. The so-called achievements, literally, are about having achievements. The biggest difference between a society of merit and discipline is that one is active and the other is passive. A society of merit is a society that actively seeks self-realization, which means that the subject's endless exploitation of himself.
In the past, people were dominated by various negative bans and controlled by various disagreements, and distributed behaviors, roles and classes through authority and bans. What people should do, what they should, what they are not allowed to do, the negativity and compulsivity are greater than consciousness.
In the merit society, "everyone can do it" and "yes, we can do it this way". The highly dominant modal verb makes people become active. From you "should" to you "can", it seems that people have turned over and become their own masters. Everyone must act spontaneously, and everyone has the obligation to achieve themselves, and have the conscious and automatic self-consciousness of whether they need reminders. My destiny is my fault, not my god.
In a society where "everything is possible", "nothing is impossible". If so, it means that you have not worked hard enough, unable to control your emotions, unable to control your figure, and unable to control your laziness, are all labeled as failure. If you relax a little, you will feel a strong sense of guilt without supervision. The true self in front of the ideal self is a loser, and people are submerged in self-pity.
In a society of meritorious deeds, everyone wants to make achievements, make achievements, and realize themselves. A kind of self-destruction, self-condemnation and self-attack force the individual to be overly active. Under this psychological effect, under the freedom of being the master and ruler, people do not need to surrender to their own compulsory freedom, but develop into exploitation of themselves and abuse of themselves. This results in overwork depression and burnout syndrome. ——Treasure yourself to death. Without external force, exploit yourself completely voluntarily until you are exhausted, exhausted, burned.
Excessive enthusiasm fundamentally changes the attention structure, and therefore perception becomes dispersed and fragmented, and is always in a multi-work state. When a person is eating or driving, he may also handle several other tasks at the same time, making a phone call, chatting on WeChat, DingTalk or other trivial matters.
In an overly positive situation, it is difficult for people to have deep attention. Deep attention is increasingly marginalizing and giving way to distracting attention—continuously shifting between multiple tasks, sources of information and work procedures.
people do not accept deep boredom, nor do they accept doing nothing, and it is difficult to focus on anything for a long time.The achievements in many fields are attributed to having deep and dedicated attention. Only in a deep concentration and concentration environment can culture be produced, and being busy alone will not produce new things.
Excessive positive behavior will inevitably transform humans and society into a self-enclosed and effective machine. If a person only has the ability to do something, lacks the ability to not do something, then he will fall into a fatal overactive state, and the senses will helplessly face the surging, involuntary stimulation and impulses.
Active society has freed itself from all constraints from others, but has fallen into devastating self-restraint. Depression and energy depletion have become epidemics, all of which are characterized by self-aggression, and self-violence replaces violence from others.
Everything today is succumb to capital. The value of life means the sum of the value a person can create as a customer. People are customer value and market value, and are commodified every moment. This market-oriented and commercialized world is like a department store. We seem to have everything, but in fact we lose the most fundamental thing, that is, the world.
