The Good Life: Spring 2024

#weekfifteenthoughts

This week, I chose to write on the Jaffe reading, ‘Work Won’t Love You Back’, and quickly found my two favorite quotes in the passage that I felt accurately summarize the reading, and reflect today’s capitalistic society and its effects on the working class. Jaffe says “Like so many things…

Work Wont Love you back

When it comes to finding employment and securing a job, we usually wish that this job will make us happy. But instead its a lot of hidden rules that come along with it, especially working in service jobs (Retail, Fast Food, etc.) After looking over Sarah Jaffe’s reading, It seems that…

Why is burnout more prevalent now?

It seems that nowadays it is more frequent to hear about people being burnt out in their careers than in the past, but why is that? I hear older people saying that the next generation “does not want to work” and while I want to quickly defend my generation i believe…

Multitasking (WEEK 15)

“We owe the cultural achievements of humanity — which include philosophy — to deep, contemplative attention.”

I found the “Profound Boredom” excerpt from The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han particularly interesting while reading. My entire life I have been…

The Burnout Society.

“The capitalist economy absolutizes survival. It is not concerned with the good life.”

I am neither an expert in business nor on the world’s economic status. Still, from the economics class I took in my senior year of high school, I learned that capitalism isn’t…

Week 15: The Burnout Society

Byung-Chul Han’s writings, especially the sections on “Vita Activa” and “The Burnout Society” are bleak descriptions of how modern-day society and the world have evolved into something that no longer cares about achieving a happy life, but is rather achievement and efficiency…

I love learning, I hate School (Blog 7)

I know that i’m doing this 2 months later, but it’s better to get it done than to keep pushing it off

When I comes down to children attending county schools (I’m mainly gonna use highs school as an example), it’s seems like a complete…

Blog 10

This might be a little late but I'm just gonna hurry up and get this out the way.

After reading a few pages of The “Ethics of Authenticity” by Charles Taylor, it seems that Charles is stating that the reasoning behind this new found self determining freedom is due to Jean- Jacques…

Blog 9

I know that I’m doing this a month later, but it’s better to get something done than not at all.

During class that day, we were going around the room answering questions by writing our response on the whiteboard for about 3–4 questions