"We use most of our powers to extend life. In so doing, we succeed only in
reducing life to survival. We live in order to survive.
The mania for health and optimization is a reflexive response to the lack of
being. We try to compensate for the absence of being by extending bare life, and
in doing so we become desensitized to life's intensity.
We confuse it with increased production, performance and consumption, but these
are merely forms of survival."
--Byung-Chul Han
September 5, 2026 111 1
