"Mostly white, upper middle class, obscenely well educated, doing really interesting jobs, sitting in really expensive chairs watching the best, most sophisticated electronic equipment money can buy. Why do we fell so empty and unhappy?”—a person who knows who he is, his flaws, his characteristics, what he wants, how things should be and how they should be, but some What you want and want to do is impossible. It's like there is such a ditch, you know there is a ditch in front, you know the width of the ditch, the hardness of the soil on both sides of the ditch, you know that you can step more than the width of the ditch, you can feel the wind, temperature, sunlight I took a picture from behind you, and even a person who looked similar to you just stepped over, but there are always some factors that prevent you from crossing this ditch. Sometimes you know you can't. Sometimes you have to step, sometimes you have to fall. You may even know later that it is because of inconsistent knowledge and practice or some "learned helplessness", but is it really such a simple reason? No, it's much more complicated.
Struggling and contradictory, a person who can write "Infinite Jest" must have endured more, be more sensitive, and think more deeply. David Wallace chose suicide 12 years later. Maybe even this choice was repeated and deliberate. Maybe Daivd knew the consequences and effects of suicide, and even knew that suicide would do more harm than good to him. Sometimes you can say that there are many choices, But sometimes there is no "choice" -- it's just "the way it is."
PS Reminds me of Aaron Swartz's suicide, Déjà vu
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