The Burnout Society. At just over fifty pages, the book found readers well beyond Germany, in part because it named a condition many had felt but could not quite define, and in part because its diagnosis proved difficult to ignore. It made a simple yet bracing claim: in Western societies, the dominant form of power has shifted. No king commands us. No foreman stands watch. For many who work on screens rather than factory floors, there is no whistle, no visible overseer. The disciplinary institutions Foucault described — those that monitored, corrected, and confined behavior — still exist, yet they are less dominant in shaping how we live. A different logic has risen to govern our habits, and instead of repressing, it affirms. Instead of commanding, it motivates. Instead of saying no, it says yes — relentlessly.
If the old regime spoke in the voice of prohibition, the new one speaks in likes.
Why Is Digital Freedom Making Us Exhausted and Sad? — The New Atlantis
Philosophers only ever change things. The point, however, is to whine about things.
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