“Η κοινωνία της διαφάνειας είναι μια κοινωνία της δυσπιστίας και της καχυποψίας, η οποία ακριβώς λόγω της έλλειψης εμπιστοσύνης, βασίζεται στον έλεγχο. [...] Τη θέση της ραγισμένης ηθικής αρχής παίρνει η διαφάνεια ως νέα κοινωνική επιταγή.” SocietyTrustTransparency Book:Transparenzgesellschaft Source: Transparenzgesellschaft
“The late-modern achievement-subject does not pursue works of duty. Its maxims are not obedience, law, and the fulfillment of obligation, but rather freedom, pleasure, and inclination. Above all, it expects the profits of enjoyment from work. It works for pleasure and does not act at the behest of the Other. Instead, it hearkens mainly to itself. After all, it must be a self-starting entrepreneur” FreedomSocietyDuty Book:Müdigkeitsgesellschaft Source: Müdigkeitsgesellschaft
“Depression—which often culminates in burnout—follows from overexcited, overdriven, excessive self-reference that has assumed destructive traits. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down, so to speak. It is tired, exhausted by itself, and at war with itself. Entirely incapable of stepping outward, of standing outside itself, of relying on the Other, on the world, it locks its jaws on itself; paradoxically, this leads the self to hollow and empty out. It wears itself out in a rat race it runs against itself.” SocietyDepressionExhaustionRat Race Book:Müdigkeitsgesellschaft Source: Müdigkeitsgesellschaft