THE CULT OF SURRENDER: TOP GURU’S NEW BOOK TELLS YOU TO STOP TRYING AND EMBRACE THE VOID
Bestselling author Oliver Burkeman is back with a DANGEROUS new manifesto that’s gripping desperate readers: stop trying to fix your life. In his viral “Meditations for Mortals,” Burkeman doesn’t offer solutions—he preaches SURRENDER. His shocking thesis? Your crushing to-do list, your failed self-improvement plans, your endless emails are not problems to solve. They are proof your life is FINITE, and the only path to “joy” is to RADICALLY ACCEPT that you are fundamentally inadequate and will never succeed.
But the darkness goes deeper. In a revealing interview, Burkeman recommended books that expose the TERRIFYING bedrock of his philosophy. He praised Hartmut Rosa’s “Resonance,” which argues modern life feels “dead and empty” because we seek control. Rosa chillingly suggests the key to happiness is LESS control, romanticizing unpredictable events like a snowfall that “might throw off your plans.” This isn’t wisdom—it’s a PRIMITIVE call to abandon agency and embrace chaos, dressed up as sociology.
Even more disturbing is his endorsement of Janet Malcolm’s “Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession,” a voyeuristic look at 1980s Freudian analysts engaged in petty feuds and “impossibly obscure debates.” Burkeman sees this toxic backstabbing as a “funny kind of endorsement” of Freudian ideas, revealing a twisted fascination with professions that pathologize human struggle while being consumed by their own pathologies. This is the bleak company he keeps.
Burkeman’s movement isn’t about peace—it’s a calculated exploitation of burnout, selling a seductive lie that the only escape from the pressure to achieve is to simply STOP. It’s the ultimate spiritual bypass for a civilization in decline. The question is no longer how to manage your life, but whether you’ll join the masses CHOOSING to give up, one meditative surrender at a time.
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