Reflections on Byong-Chul Han

It may have started with the doctrine of original sin: You are not good enough as you are. You must become something else -- cleansed, purified, self-realized, self-transcended. In 2021, you must be more famous, you must be more famous than you are because the scope of mass society is endless, just at the moment you have stretched yourself to span the width of it, it has grown again, stretching east and west like the wings of a soaring dragon, you must become more well-known, more recognized, more perfect, smoother, more of an object of envy.