"I'll discuss this with you in a few years. You don’t want to be me.”
“Life in the future may become very enjoyable and convenient. You only need to buy them, but the people who provide them are those who don’t love you. Until that day, maybe you will still be alive. , But you are really dead.”
Although everyone regards success as the end point, the ontology of society is a huge system towards success. It is so deeply embedded in everyone’s hearts that it cannot be shaken. Hasn't Wallace written hundreds of pages of paper before "Endless Joke"? Those who can't trade him for a little fame, but one day, he became a real so-called celebrity and climbed to the top of the mountain, but what is the scenery at the top? Actually there is nothing.
Wallace feels that society has made a huge mistake, and that actual success cannot solve a person's essential problems and contradictions. After busy press conferences, autograph sessions, and party after party, he was still a 34-year-old bachelor, accompanied by only a blank piece of paper.
Success cannot solve loneliness. This may sound shameless, and when Wallace said it, he was embarrassed. He didn't have the opportunity to use his fame in exchange for material enjoyment and sex, but that would only be more lonely, the more he entered the system, the more lonely he would be.
But what about when it fails? Doesn't the writer feel pain and impaired self-esteem? Naturally. But at that time you were still in the system, and you regarded success as everything, full of illusions and longing for best-sellers and the best works. I don’t know how many years it took to reach that peak. However, when you climbed all the way and suddenly became the top person under commercial operation, you found that the principle of persuading yourself to move forward didn’t work anymore. Where is the best work?
In the little black room, there are only bachelors, social pressure, and a page that is always blank.
In this society, those who provide you with all the conveniences and the sense of accomplishment are those who do not love you. Whether you succeed or not, you can't get rid of this strong sense of loneliness.
What's the use of convenience in life? I want to leave the earth and live on Mars.
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