You're listening to the Hard Men Podcast, reclaiming biblical masculinity in a world of Southness.

Welcome to this episode of the Hardman Podcast. I am of course your host Eric Khan and in

today's episode we're going to be talking about why overload is destroying men.

In his book, The Overload Syndrome, Richard Swenson describes an all too common condition

in which moderns typically find themselves and that is this

we're generally overworked over committed and on the brink of burnout at all times

many of us where the frantic and frenetic pace of our lives as a

badge of honor. And when we do stop for a gasp of air, we do so just long enough to

tell our friends or colleagues how busy we really are.

The great oddity is that an astounding number of people in the workforce now describe their

work as, quote,

so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious

that even the employee cannot justify its existence,

end quote. So it's this crazy irony. It turns. existence."

So it's this crazy irony.

It turns out we're burning ourselves out by efficiently,

very efficiently, doing more meaningless work than ever before.

It's efficient, but it's completely pointless.

It's the equivalent of running harder and faster on a hamster wheel to nowhere.

And if we do have any in between spare moments,

they are now filled with a smartphone or an endless morphine drip of social media apps,

news stories, notifications, and banal celebrity click-pate.

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