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@meghasharma2779

4 жыл бұрын

you're doing a great job!

Pay attention to what he is saying here. Stupid follows stupid, intelligent follows intelligent, etc. It's very lonely when you are someone that realizes so many things that others don't or are in denial of knowing. It's just a shame that his detachment from it wasn't enough for him. I feel the same way most of the time. RIP David 🌗

@DickPerry

9 ай бұрын

Yeah fuck, me too. Its actually quite sad. Thanks for talking about unknown denial, I feel like I got a lot of problems stemming from this.

He was a very honest and humble man. He also forecasted why platforms like KZread overtook television.

I am listen to him forever again and again

Thank you for posting this video

Attempting to understand humanity necessitates understanding David.

10:52 is the feeling of trying to be perfectly clear and knowing it doesn't land, and then trying to conjure an explanation based on a derivative ideal to allow the other person to gain some insight. Lord, he tried. Words fail when there's a greater interest at hand. I used to think he was pretentious but now it all makes sense. A literary prophet who didn't have the words or terms to express the future. Incredible. It's still coming. We haven't seen anything yet.

@dixienormus8836

9 ай бұрын

easy there socrates, don't have an aneurysm trying to sound smart

Ty!

Thank you for your work. Foster had a very peculiar mind.

@whit2642

5 жыл бұрын

And very intuitive as well as perceptive. I am working through reading a collection of his essays now and one he wrote in 1990 about the dangers of tv and how they manipulate the viewer and how it is mirrored to society to cause up to want to binge watch etc etc etc and EVERYTHING he says is exactly what we now see happening. He was certainly genius in his own right.

@abanana2561

4 жыл бұрын

@@whit2642 I mean it's not like he's foreseen any of that, television has existed for quite some time.

@whit2642

4 жыл бұрын

A Banana 2 It existed. But his insight into the manipulation and mirror effect had NOT been.

@steve3nto

7 ай бұрын

@@whit2642 can I ask you what is the name of the essay please?

@Goawaypleasenow

7 ай бұрын

@@steve3nto jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf

In most parts of the U.S. if you have an intellect and you have an interest in arcane topics (art, architecture, philosophy, etc) many people will write you off as a weirdo (or a nerd). But if you perform your nasty dance at the Grammys you are a hero.

@Eire_Go_Deo

Жыл бұрын

It truly is a sad state of affairs.

@codydfwn

Жыл бұрын

Story of my life.

@rr7firefly

Жыл бұрын

@@codydfwn For you this Goethe quote may have meaning: "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." I know how you feel. I lie in bed at night going over the day's events and I think (often) how there are wonderful things that no one else would care a fig about. I think I'm smiling and sighing at the same time.

I totally agree with David

treasure !

I think of myself as a relatively bright person but I believe, despite my best efforts, I would bore the shit out of David with my stupidity in a conversation.

@whit2642

5 жыл бұрын

I think that when I read his work. Like, damn, am I stupid or is he wayyyyyy intelligent?

@juanadrianarquinegogomez3610

2 жыл бұрын

wtf dfw aint no joyce nor pynchon; basically people tend to think its difficult due to its lenght.

@law9665

2 жыл бұрын

Don't sell yourself short. Just like in this conversation, with this interviewer, he is rather enamoured by what she has to say when being prompted to answer her own question on what literature provides that other mediums do not. His immediate response is by saying "that's a better answer than I could have given". And you can tell he is a great listener also by his positive body language and interjected sounds he makes that show he is truly trying to understand someone else's perspective that he himself could not have expressed any other way. He's a great talker, writer, and listener, all three are important, and anyone can be.

@nonsense2369

2 жыл бұрын

That type of thinking I assume would wound David. He never set out with the intention of making others feel inferior.

@brennenspice6098

8 ай бұрын

David's best characteristic, said by many peers is that he was almost unborable - As a matter of fact the central character or the closest thing you get to an identifiable hero in infinite jest is the below average IQ everyman

If George Constanza worried about real stuff, he would be DFW.

@bill8383

3 жыл бұрын

Ha, that is an interesting proposition !!

He is brilliant ! He’s just disheveled because he doesn’t have a woman in his life helping him look the Part. My god where are your manners give home some water and open a widow for circulation!!

Is he high? Too much caffeine?

@lickitysplit3575

Жыл бұрын

He ate some mold.

@eskybakzu712

Жыл бұрын

@@lickitysplit3575 Well he does say he's in there.

@pod9363

Жыл бұрын

The more you read about him the more his demeanor makes sense.

@wack...

9 ай бұрын

he doesnt seem high at all

@jonahs4819

28 күн бұрын

He was a ball of anxiety and existential dread. What you are seeing is the physical expression of the forces inside of him which eventually lead to his death

It takes "skill and education" to derive pleasure from art that is "more difficult and less pleasant". Sounds like mostly BS to me. I'd like to think I'm fairly skilled and educated, but I didn't fall in love with Infinite Jest as much as many people because the characters were generally depressed and non-appealing and about half the book takes place in a drug and alcohol rehab facility: about as depressing a setting as you can hope to find. Infinite Jest: a supposedly fun thing I'll never read again.

@fudgyboo

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, DFW said that he set out to write the saddest thing he could with Infinite Jest. He was just as surprised as you that people find it so humorous.

@cristophersaravia2413

6 ай бұрын

He's making a comparison to something like reality TV. Something that is commonly watched, however, you don't have to make an effort to use any cognitive thinking.

I wonder what his views would be in 2021. With all this cancel culture political correctness going on today i bet he would talk a lot deferent than he does in this video.

@BrandonChaunceyOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

In the unconscious world, we're all deeply microfabric copies carrying our ancestor's habits. Cancel Culture is ego spread deflecting blame from one person to another and it puts the people with smaller voices and less fight in a place they don't deserve in society, often times.

@ht2007

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrandonChaunceyOfficial people with smaller voices: like conservatives, Trump supporters, and Christians. Society is demonizing the white man like the NAZI party demonized the Jews. Not quite there yet but thats ONLY because of the second amendment. Some day in the near future the socialist/democratic (pretty much communist left) party will be able to destroy anyone who opposes them...just like Hitler did the Jews and the democratic party destroy unwanted babies...you know, those babies that inconvenience promiscuous women. Im about to prove me right...

Reading leads to a sedentary lifestyle. Very unhealthy.

@ThePainkiller9995

7 ай бұрын

if you're a r3t4rd maybe

@itsallgoodman4108

4 ай бұрын

But you still need your Babble

Gracious, he was fucked up. Wadda nineties kid.

Thank you so much Manufacturing Intellect! Your work is well appreciated!