Post-individualism

“I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.”

― David Shields, Reality Hunger

suffering is conceptualized in ways that protect the current economy from criticism—namely, as rooted in individual rather than social causes, which means we must favor self over social reform

It does not matter what comfort and convenience we have if we think love is dead. Who cares what cool technologies we have, if the closest thing we’ve got to community is an online forum?

Burnout, then, is an outcome of an interaction between burnout producing environmental factors and individually susceptible workers.