The achievement-subject’s exhaustion is an undead state, both over-alive and under-alive.
Evidence
The homines sacri of achievement society also differ from those of the society of sovereignty on another score. They cannot be killed at all. Their life equals that of the undead. They are too alive to die, and too dead to live. — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 138
Categorization
- APHORISMS: ‘Too alive to die, and too dead to live’ — a compressed account of burnout’s paradox, worth returning to.
Related
- Everyone in achievement society is homo sacer—undead and holy. (similarity 0.80)