Contro la società dell'angoscia

I’ll admit: I hit pause three times in the first 20 minutes—not because Onofrietti’s performance falters (it’s flawlessly paced, with a gravitas that suits Han’s diagnostic tone), but because the ideas land like gut punches. Han’s argument that we’ve traded external coercion for *internal* tyranny—where we exploit ourselves in the name of ‘passion projects’ and ‘side hustles’—feels less like theory and more like a mirror held up to my own inbox. Onofrietti’s voice, cool and precise, makes the medicine go down easier, though I occasionally wished for more rhythmic variation in the denser passages (his cadence can verge on monolithic when Han stacks abstractions like *“la trasparenza assolutizza il presente”*). The audiobook’s brevity is both a strength and a weakness. At 2h36m, it’s a masterclass in concision, but Han’s reliance on repetitive motifs (the ‘society of tiredness,’ the ‘disappearance of the Other’) sometimes blurs into a hypnotic loop. The production is impeccably clean—no distracting edits or volume spikes—though the lack of chapter markers in some platforms makes it tricky to revisit key sections. Still, this is one of those rare listens that rewires how you see your own complicity in the systems it dissects. Just don’t stream it while scrolling Twitter. The cognitive dissonance might break you.