So, basically, Byung chul han is a philosopher who will say in this book that, nowadays, we are overwhelmed, exhausted and extremely tired because we have an excess of ourselves, that being our need of being productive, of making things, nowadays doing nothing makes you feel guilty, and thats specially designed to keep you manufacturing whatever you do so the world keeps running, and, to say that, he compares this relation to the our immune system;

When a virus comes and infects our body, our Antibodies fight back and kill whatever that is NOT from our body, something external.

Lets take that relation to human relationships, when you approach me, and i talk to you, me talking to you is a reaction from my immune system against that something that doesnt belong from my body, the "negativity", keeping my "positivity" (positive, in this context is my body, or more simply, me). So, Han says in this book that depression, anxiety, burnout syndrome are all caused by an excess of positivity, an excess of ourselves, and he says that, when we see the news, and take it in, when that something exteenal makes me personally feel bad, thats denying the negativity of the news (it isnt part of my body), and thats also denying my positivity (denying im something separate from the news), he calls that the "Negation of the negation", denying of the denying. I really like this book specially because it connects with the concept of "industry of culture", that is, when art becomes overproduced, it loses its worth, or worse, its used for making you not reflect about the things you consider important in life, so, for example

Think of a person who goes to work at 6 am, gets home at 8 pm, late night, and he goes to watch Tv, watch films, scrool thru endless reels then goes to sleep.

Notice that the person is being occupied with work, with culture, with lots of things that dont necessarely mean hes living a joyful life, thinking about what is meaningful to him, and worse, that by being occupied, hes stopped from that personal reflection, so imagine living a whole life of meaningless insta scrolls of doom, and getting to your 80's dissapointed, or worse, with lots of biases and prejudices that were never surpassed

This also connects with the concept of "liquid society", when, alongside consumerism, we search for the next thing to consume, and we are not content with what we have, this society is one that not only is frustrated by the lack of fullfillment, but also by the lack of meaningful, stable, human connections, because they never get the chance to have someone to talk to and stay with that someone thru their life.

I think that the connection that both of these concepts have is that they aggravate the situation, they provide more tiredness, physical and emotional, till the point it gets to a depression, or anxiety, or other pathologies.

Anyways, i really wanted to talk about it because i love this book