Exhaustion can turn a triumphant exploit into a humiliating collapse

Evidence

With great difficulty and much assistance I recrossed the “Lava Beds,” was carried to the horse and lifted upon him, and when we reached the camping ground I was lifted off him, and laid on the ground wrapped up in blankets, a humiliating termination of a great exploit. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 121

Categorization

• XREF: Her ‘humiliating termination of a great exploit’ resonates with the narrator’s own costly physical collapse at the close of their explorations in these mountain narratives. — connects to: Mechanization sustains exploitation while shifting its form from muscular to mental exhaustion. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 169; Exhaustion kills capacity while inspired tiredness enables non-doing — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 86; Cornered destructiveness stops distinguishing self-destruction from outward violence — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 118

Broader Connections

• Exhaustion kills capacity while inspired tiredness enables non-doing #expands (0.82) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 86
• Mechanization sustains exploitation while shifting its form from muscular to mental exhaustion. #qualifies (0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 169
• Cornered destructiveness stops distinguishing self-destruction from outward violence #exemplifies (0.74) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 118