From: Han, Byung-Chul.
The Burnout Society, Stanford University Press, 2015.
Tiredness in achievement society is solitary tiredness; it has a separating and isolating effect. Peter Handke, in “Essay on Tiredness,” calls it “divisive tiredness”: “already the two . . . were irre- sistibly recoiling, each into . . . private tiredness, not ours, but mine over here and yours over there” (8).
Tiredness of this kind proves violent because it destroys all that is common or shared, all proximity, and even language itself: “Doomed to remain speechless, that sort of tiredness drove us to violence. A violence that may have expressed itself only in our manner of seeing, which distorted the other” (9).
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