I would rather go a bit meta and quote Byung-Chul Han, that we live in a 'society of tiredness'. The German Korean philosopher, describes this quite interesting

I would rather go a bit meta and quote Byung-Chul Han, that we live in a 'society of tiredness'. The German Korean philosopher, describes this quite interestingly in his book — Burnout society [1] (some parts are also in the youtube documentary here [2]). He intriguing describes the transition of modern worker from conditions of Foucauldian Disciplinary Society [3] into what he calls an 'Achievement society'. In an achievement society, a subject is kinda like in a self-feedback loop. She/He are constantly reinventing their personality, profession, and beliefs. There is no solid self-image formed due to constant updates. He says this is largely because we live in an over-positivized world. Where there is no room for negativity and hence anything that is negative ceases to exist due to the way it is presented [4]. So, if your job is not working it is not anybody's problem but yours. So go do a masterclass in reactjs and stop being a philosopher. Then you do some personal branding, then hustle on twitter posting threads like "5 cool react plugins" or "Javascript or Typescript?". But we essentially tend to be stuck in that solitary, "I can do it". He says: > “The modal verb that determines achievement society is not the Freudian Should, but Can” Hence, we seem to be always in this Can state, without rest, even in our states of rest we are presenting our rest as images on social media to achieve. That philosophically is not rest. Modern human never rest. He is constantly producing. But, there is a kind of gratification crisis this leads to and one never achieves anything. He says : > “Instead, the feeling of having achieved a goal never occurs. It is not that the narcissistic subject does not want to achieve closure. Rather, it is incapable of getting there.” and eventually people get depressed due to this constant 'need of initiative'. I am sorry, I explained it pretty bad. It seems written like an absolute thing but there are complications. Please do read the book (just 72 pages) and watch the documentary. It is not a supreme explanation but some bits kind a ring bell to be as I have been living in a kind of perpetual tiredness lately. Cheers and have a good day! [1] https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25725 https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25725 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNkDeUApreo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNkDeUApreo [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVFtc9_AB2k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVFtc9_AB2k [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2YeJpkrTOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2YeJpkrTOQ