Poisonous prophecy

Bryon 2022-01-17 08:01:22

Many of Wallace's views are like toxic prophecies.
For example, humans will eventually die.
Died from numbness.
TV will do this,
not so much TV as the current Internet.

I'm not saying that watching TV is bad or a waste of your time, any more than like masturbation is bad or waste of your time. It's pleasurable way to spend a few minutes. but if you are doing it 20 times a day, if your primary sexual relationship is with your own hand,something is wrong.

The technology is gonna get better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier and more
and more convenient and more and more pleasure to sit alone with images on a screen given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. That's fine in low doses but if it's the basic main staple of you diet, you are gonna die. In a very meaningful way, you are going to die.

I don’t know if it is an illusion of the post-80s, a symbol of old age? Maybe I am really conservative? I don't think the times are changing for the better. The mobile phone is like a handcuff, forcing you to seek attention and presence at any time. Fewer people read or write or think. What everyone cares about is the appearance, the accent, and whether it is popular enough. It is also the sadness I feel. Although living this way, everyone will be happier. Ignorant people are the happiest. But people will die like this. I die ignorantly. Dying in this ignorant pleasure of not perceiving pain or wanting to perceive pain. What is the difference with pigs. No wonder Hayao Miyazaki compares humans to pigs.

Get out of the cave, the screen, the frame of the phone, and experience some other things.
Painting, calligraphy, writing poems, picnics, driving, swimming.
Focusing on our own life itself, instead of "connecting with the world", can we also be happy?
And it is more meaningful happiness.
People have been paying attention to the fact that he did not take heroin drugs.
In fact , in many cases, the real drug addiction did not come from the so-called drugs.
Or in other words, certain drugs are more terrifying and addictive:
endless TV shows, the Internet, masturbation, and so on.

From the point of view of the film, WALLACE is a very honest person. A truly honest man.
He even feels that he is a member of stupid, so he has so many depressive and sad thoughts.
The role played by JESSE is a person who is more mundane and smarter and more adaptable to society.

Anyway, I was still a little depressed.
These years when 30 years old are coming soon. in one's late twenties.
This kind of struggle is really empathetic.
I don't know how it counts in society.
What is dream.
No feelings to settle down,
no capital to be proud of,
There is nothing like this,
even youth is about to abandon us.
This sense of crisis.
There is nowhere to escape, you can only bite the bullet.

Who is like him, who feels that 28 years old is like life is over, then going to have sex with strangers, drinking, or walking on the road early in the morning for a long period of time, and then reading is the only elixir to redeem loneliness.
Sometimes I envy classmates and relatives who are already married and have children. After giving birth to a baby, he started to carry the baby non-stop. No time to worry about BB. No wonder people say that literary and artistic youths are just fine if they have a child. But giving birth to a child is just to pass our questions to the next generation and pass on our unfulfilled dreams. Isn't it a sorrow?

To borrow a line from a mother in his youth:
I just think it would be more.
After all, I'm still not reconciled.
When you are single, you can experience the world. When the
world is only my own.


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Extended Reading
  • Garret 2022-03-28 09:01:09

    The dialogue between the two was very exciting. For a moment, I even thought of becoming a good writer as my goal. I bought the 1,104-page book "Endless Jokes". Was Rolling Stone's collapse because the editor borrowed it? The interview was caused by wanton eating and drinking?

  • Daniela 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    That big ship is really awesome

The End of the Tour quotes

  • David Foster Wallace: It's so much easier having dogs.

    David Lipsky: Ha, ha - I'm sure.

    David Foster Wallace: I mean, yes, you don't get laid, but you don't have that feeling, like you're hurting their feelings, all the time.

    David Lipsky: Right, right.

    David Foster Wallace: I'd like to emphasise strictly platonic relationship with the dogs.

    David Lipsky: He he; I'll make sure I'll highlight it in the article, sure.

  • David Lipsky: Do you wanna have kids?...

    David Foster Wallace: Yeah, I think that writing books is a little like raising children, y'know -you have to be careful; mm; it's ok to take pride in the work, but I think it's bad for someone to want the glory to reflect back on you.

    David Lipsky: I mean, sounds like you're worried about having children.

    David Foster Wallace: I'm not wanna say anymore about that - if that's ok?