Byung Chul Han calls it auto-aggression. In the past, people followed rules and prohibitions. Social norms informed them what they could do and not do. Contemporary society has transitioned from a disciplinary world governed by prohibition and duty ("Should") to an achievement society driven by unlimited initiative and potential ("Can"). In this environment, the individual becomes an entrepreneur of himself, free from external forces of compulsion. However, this freedom creates a paradox: external compulsion is replaced by internal auto-compulsion. The individual engages in voluntary self-exploitation, becoming simultaneously the master and the slave, the perpetrator and the victim. Because auto-exploitation is accompanied by a deceptive feeling of freedom, it is far more efficient and relentless than exploitation by others. Because there is no external norm to blame for failure or fatigue, the subject cannot direct its frustration outward. When the individual eventually reaches the limit of personal performance, all the systemic pressure turns inward. The subject enters an internalized war with itself, grinding itself down through destructive self-reproach and relentless self-analysis, ultimately leading to depression and burnout. Depressive burnout is the physical and emotional state of an exhausted soul that has worn itself out in an absolute rat race against its own identity. This is what the shāstras call the state of being a Varnasankar.