By Lee Nan-hee
Not too long ago, the variety of industrial accidents and deaths within the supply business has noticeably elevated. It’s mentioned that society has developed a lot, from agricultural to cutting-edge applied sciences and synthetic intelligence. Nonetheless, evidently individuals haven’t grow to be that a lot happier. Relatively, applied sciences, strategies and methods to take advantage of use of human beings, to make the most of human beings in essentially the most intelligent methods have been developed.
These days individuals strain and squeeze even themselves. This ends in deaths from overwork typically reported in information. The outcomes of compacting themselves, in flip, grow to be the worth of themselves. Now could be the time when virtually every part is evaluated in cash. Specifically, persons are estimated in cash most significantly by way of skill, what number of and what sort of achievements they’ll make. How a lot is my life? When one dies from an industrial accident at work or when one will get divorced and receives a solatium — the particular person’s worth, to be extra precise — worth is estimated.
F. Toennies, the 18th-century German sociologist, divided human communities into two. One is “gesellschaft” which suggests profit-based society and the opposite is “gemeinschaft” which is a love-based neighborhood.
In Korea, because the international foreign money disaster of the late Nineteen Nineties, our society has been impacted by neo-liberal globalization and has tended to place extra stress on financial development and revenue maximization. This has filtered by not solely firms but in addition in politics, training, faith and even every particular person. Below these circumstances, household — about which we discovered at college that it was based mostly on love and caring — has been disrupted. Furthermore, lifetime jobs are disappearing. As a substitute, company restructuring or overhaul and irregular jobs, as soon as unknown to us, have grow to be frequent.
Within the title of particular person freedom, now each particular person is thrust into precarious survival and employment competitors, which is “both it is a hit or it is a catastrophe” within the extremely polarized society of 1:99. Excessive individualism that each one these last outcomes hinge on every particular person’s skill and selection is prevalent. Thus, everyone seems to be pressured to handle oneself similar to a one-person company, and to develop oneself tirelessly with the intention to produce the most effective outcomes and earnings.
Such self-development or consulting discourses have been widespread in our society since 2000. This is rather like self-squeezing. On prime of this, it may be understood as governmentality proposed by M. Foucault, the distinguished French thinker. Self-development is a phenomenon through which individuals’s lives are ruled by particular energy, particular ideas and habits modes. Nonetheless, that energy and energy relations are invisible and evasive.
When one loses one’s personal job, they need to really feel that their very own existence is disappearing. One can not discover that means, cause or worth for his or her existence. One’s worth has at all times been estimated and evaluated in accordance with tutorial ranks, sum of money and job ranges.
Nonetheless, what we’ve got to at all times bear in mind is that we’re valuable and dignified no matter ranks, quantities and ranges. We deserve it. And we must always be pleased about our lives simply as we’re. There have been occasions once I squeezed myself. I used to be not sure about whether or not I used to be doing good, sufficient, if I used to be not unnoticed in comparison with others. Now I’ve determined not to do this, to cease squeezing myself. Relatively, to belief myself. I might moderately belief my skill, consistency and sincerity and can be pleased about my life in addition to individuals round me.
Lee Nan-hee studied English in school and theology at Hanshin College.
