“To be free means to be free of compulsion. In the neoliberal regime, however, freedom produces compulsion. These forms of compulsion are not external; they come from within. The compulsion to perform and the compulsion to optimize oneself are compulsions of freedom. Freedom and compulsion become one. We voluntarily submit ourselves to the compulsion to be creative, efficient, authentic.”

—Byung-Chul Han, ‘The Spirit of Hope’