Removing sanctions yields lassitude rather than self-directed freedom

Evidence

The lack of an effective disciplinary system has not, to say the least, been compensated for by an increase in student self-motivation. Students are aware that if they don’t attend for weeks on end, and/or if they don’t produce any work, they will not face any meaningful sanction. They typically respond to this freedom not by pursuing projects but by falling into hedonic (or anhedonic) lassitude: the soft narcosis, the comfort food oblivion of Playstation, all-night TV and marijuana. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 50

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Freedom that withdraws into self-interest denies its own nature; Freedom depends on overcoming negativity and constraint — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 147

Broader Connections

• Freedom that withdraws into self-interest denies its own nature #expands (0.85)
• Freedom depends on overcoming negativity and constraint #expands (0.75) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 147