Burnout: Modern Affliction or Human Condition | The New Yorker | 1/26/21
- joshualin2024
- Jan 8, 2022
- 1 min read
Summary: Burnout is gernally dated to around 1973. In 1990, when the Princeton scholar Robert Fagles published a new English translation of the Iliad, he had Achilles tell Agamemnon that he doesn’t want people to think he’s “a worthless, burnt-out coward.” This expression was not in Homer’s original Greek. Still, the notion that people who fought in the Trojan War, in the twelfth or thirteenth century B.C., suffered from burnout is a good indication of the disorder’s claim to universality. People who write about burnout tend to argue that it has existed everywhere and forever. Burnout is increasingly serious and widespread concern. It can be characterized as when your all used up to the point of no return. Such as like fi you were a battery that was so used up that you could not be recharged.
3 Fun Facts:
Even Moses got burned out. Which is shown in Numbers 11:14, when he complained to God, “I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.”
Elijah was also burned out in 1 Kings 19, when he “went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough.”
In Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, it claims that burnout can afflict the whole generation
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