You guys are always talking up Byung-Chul Han and Patrick Deneen, and they're great, but this—despite being older—seems to describe our neoliberal hellscape even better.I would add Philip Rieff's Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud here as maybe even better, but I feel like that one's a bit less accessible and more strictly "theory" in some ways.
>>24922805I like his other books but this one seem long winded with him bitching about the NFL in the middle of the book for no good reason. Revolt was much better.
>>24922805Could have done without the Freudian hogwash. Some interesting concepts otherwise.
>>24924534Does it point out that modern thin notions of freedom, especially those undergirding liberalism, basically say freedom to 'choose' (to consume) IS all there really is to freedom?
