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The Burnout Society
“I think we’re in the process of reverse-engineering ourselves.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
So I’m fighting against a current that says it’s normal to be exhausted all the time.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
the ideal of limitlessness consumption serves the modern economy quite well, but it does not serve the person well at all.2 This ideal imparts to us all a spirit of scarcity that darkens our experience: not enough time, not enough attention, not enough capacity to care. But upon what does this spirit feed? It feeds, in part, on the temptation to li... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Art of Living
a time of “total work,” a state of existence in which work is such a powerful force that almost everyone ends up identifying as a worker first and foremost. The idea of total work was inspired by the German philosopher Josef Pieper, who first wrote about it in his book Leisure, The Basis of Culture. Writing in Germany after World War II, Pieper was
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