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• davidthewatson · Feb 13, 2022 · Recommends

  I'd suggest Byung Chul Han. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byung-Chul_Han Checkout The Burnout Society, The Disappearance of Rituals, and The Palliative Society. It's difficult to know if the language stems from a "lost in translation" problem, but I enjoy the writing tremendously, especially for its mind-expanding quality. It's like a gateway drug. The writing…

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• JakeHPark · Jun 24, 2025 · Mentions

  …reactionaries, but it's hard to argue that it's not a genuine shift in societal mood and values. People in general don't take as much risk anymore. It's been variously documented by Byung-Chul Han in The Palliative Society, Jonathan Haidt in The Coddling of the American Mind, and even The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch. Generally, it's a response to increasing complexity, atomisation and declining social ties,…

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