This guy is big in the book world, but did nothing for the regular folk. He didn't preach black lives matter or me too. He killed himself rather than facing the ugliness.
@ronwalker40569 күн бұрын
Faulkner did several remakes of speeches. One he gave at Jill's high school graduation he re-stated it for a TV documentary (parts of which were included in the PBS presentation entitled Faulkner, A Life on Paper).
@loon4830Ай бұрын
unfortunately this video is hard to find despite searching the exact title
@ezekiorage41Ай бұрын
Spokesman for a lost generation
@MisserbiАй бұрын
Two things come to mind. One, fiction and literature in the US is a solitary effort and to take it on in the current climate a mammoth task given life, ambition, and responsibilties that loom. He had to know others would read into his mindset? Two, the subject matter is the exact reason anyone would give up. He was in the middle of an electric storm. He had set goals and to reach them he sacrificed his sanity. People on meds get off because of the side effects and not to fit in or seem cured? Was DFW fooled into meds and fooled when getting off them? A sane person would say the grey matter got to him but I think he was battling his own ego. That's if he wasn't hooked on smoking or drinking or anything else? That is my experience.
@BLUEGENE136 ай бұрын
literary people are fucking gaaaaaaaaaaaay
@scyth27 ай бұрын
Wish we had more of Daniel Jackson before he went through the Stargate.
@cahyasatixoxo72077 ай бұрын
Damn, 20 years later and I’m a 22 year old whose friends get mad at him for recommending books. Maybe it’s for the better he isn’t here to see how much worse it’s gotten.
@Teeveepicksures7 ай бұрын
Smart Mac
@jpisty7 ай бұрын
I have lost the ability to sit down and read. Decades of stimulation from tv, internet and cell phone have fried my dopamine receptors. It didn’t use to be like this for me 😢
@fos87897 ай бұрын
Imagine he speaking and analysing social media and TikTok and all that crap. I hope so much he was alive.
@smaller_cathedrals7 ай бұрын
I would have loved to hear his comments on video games, games like "Red Dead Redemption 2" or "The Last of Us 2", or more experimental pieces like "The Stanley Parable". Would've been highly interesting. It's really a tragedy that we lost such a brilliant mind.
@farrah97488 ай бұрын
* this is profoundly relatable to my current problems posed by ppl that's only ambition is to keep my life from me ⛬
@farrah97488 ай бұрын
* im stranded in a huge waste of time part of my life. and have had nothing to look at except the massive selfishness, immaturity, and grotesque greed. and not one soul around me is capable of a drop of honesty or sincerity. so finding these honest reflections from the past will have to settle as my only brain food for the last 13yrs ⛬
@farrah97488 ай бұрын
* the more I hear from him the more I agree ⛬ ♥
@maggazilla8 ай бұрын
You win algorithm, I will indeed buy and read Infinite Jest.
@josephsellers59788 ай бұрын
The future of fiction will be found in the social studies section
@anywallsocket8 ай бұрын
“Helping us help eachother how to live”
@RoadTripperrr8 ай бұрын
It’s crazy a guy this eloquent/thoughtful can be such a huge dickhead/abuser in his personal life
@john273978 ай бұрын
…And Melville wrote Moby Dick in one year. Read that instead of Infinite Jest.
@DOOBERtv8 ай бұрын
Did David come to these conclusions on his own? who guided him to this knowledge?
@James1-9-7-88 ай бұрын
A genuinely fascinating guy. To me, he was literature’s equivalent of Chomsky. I rarely disagree with him.
@iancrause18568 ай бұрын
Sublime lucidity. We need these people. They are the best among us - or were.
@user619208 ай бұрын
Go to any nursing home in the US and you will immediately understand how toxic and disgusting television is. Most residents are quite literally slaves to their odd TV schedules.
@MotokoKusanagi8 ай бұрын
well slavery it is, when you every feeling, every whim dictates you life... pathologically... that's slavery
@user-to2gh7sg3l8 ай бұрын
I'm always a little hesitant of people with two last names or two first names...
@landofthesilverpath58238 ай бұрын
Agree with it except the idea that the Christian right wanted to do any of that, or that it ever had the ability to. The Christian right insurgency of the 80's and 90's was a grassroots sort of murmur against some actually terrible trends. Including the ones Foster speaks of. But for the most part, they only staged cultural protest and never seriously entertained or sought real powerr to compel anyone beyond mere persuasion. We would be in a better place , comparatively, today, if any of the ideas of the Christian right were made into policy. Or even enforced on people-- as people would indeed be happier with the sort of purpose and spiritual discipline it woupd entail. This is the great irony of DFW having been afraid of "fascism."
@paulnich288 ай бұрын
That moment when I realized he’s right about all those dumb people without any patience while watching at 1.5 speed 😮
@aarondavid58668 ай бұрын
classical music is hundreds of years old ofcourse it has no bearing now
@Goblin_Wizard8 ай бұрын
its not your fault personally that you always feel like there is more to life. Its not your fault that you don' "just do it", there isnt just something wrong with YOU. You can carve out your own sanctuary, but you first must admit that something is wrong with this system and that you are just currently a part in it. Blaming yourself for the system you were born into will lead to suicide.
@Goblin_Wizard8 ай бұрын
sad that film/tv has become a cheap glass excitement, it can be JUST as deep and engaging as a good book.
@Tygearianus8 ай бұрын
I think there is a tendency for people to get snobby and ignorant of what they see on a tv. They think there’s no value in critiquing set design or costumes… blocking, cinematography, music… let alone the writing and the acting. There is so much going on in some movies that you have got to watch it a dozen times to focus in on different aspects of the story telling. If you want to get snobby about how the same story was told in a tenth of the time and included the imaginations of other people that’s it’s somehow lesser than… expand your mind. You think you are thinking so much when you read but lots of the time it’s just consuming text the same way people consume any information. When the time comes you will just chatgpt blurt out whatever comes to your mind. Maybe you will sound more intelligent with the variety in your diction but as for the substance of your arguments being inherently better or your understanding deeper just because you read while others watch. De-lud-ed
@leahcimolrac14778 ай бұрын
I don’t think it’s that there’s nothing to critique, like you can’t sit down and watch a Marvel movie and decide to admire some things artistically in some respect and dislike other aspects. We are in an era of overstimulation though. So it’s easier if a movie that has a hundred billion dollar budget to be flashy while it hides that it’s an overall lazy piece of shit. There’s a place for everything, of course. And if everything was a Dostoyevsky novel or a Peirce essay life would be horrendously sad and dull. I think it’s pretty observable that there’s an instant gratification element to society today though, no?? And it gets reflected in what gets promoted. I mean, if you want us all to just be simple fucking monkeys then I’m down to fling feces. Just give me the signal
@joeyhathaway84478 ай бұрын
Thank you for posting this snippet of Wallace's (and Kafka's) brilliance.
@bardoface8 ай бұрын
David was an important voice to say the least. I think he overthought and wrote himself into a hell though. John Grisham, that’s right, Grisham said something like….“ I always know my ending when I begin a book. If you know where you are going you’ll never get lost. I’ve seen many writers not know their ending and the find themselves in a real predicament and get writers block and agony.” I imagine David wrote himself into a depressing completely not fun place with his own negativity and nihilistic seeing of our world through such depressing vision. Take note. If you hang out in depression laden topics!
@popcrnshower8 ай бұрын
This dudes theories are mid
@nicolem56268 ай бұрын
They don’t appeal to our wants for fun they appeal to our fear of missing out
@86Corvus8 ай бұрын
Selfcontroll is eroded and people become large infants, not fully realized adults. Celebrate your ability to controll your desires and endulge wisely when its ok to do so.
@kieranmaciel61958 ай бұрын
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work. A life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit. Not for glory, and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with purpose and significance of its origin. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will someday stand here where I am standing. Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear, so long sustained by now that we can’t even bare it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question, “When will I be blown up?” Because of this the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.
@leonconnelly53039 ай бұрын
I get a sense of dread from reading books quiet often, usually if its something I dont like, I think its cause the words in a book are so solemn and lifeless and uniform, but when read they create another world.
@kimberlymurray52939 ай бұрын
I could listen to Faulkner talk until the last ding dong of doom has clanged and faded.
@botero019 ай бұрын
Another miserable Marxist moron.
@Misserbi10 ай бұрын
I think there are two types of audiences: 1) The ones who buy what is out and come back to it. The sophists and such who are driven by the latest and greatest -- who make waves. 2) The ones who sit inside a small niche making it seem like everything worth anything is unearthed. 3) Then you have the classical, romance, foreign, and other genrists (including the deceased writers club) who are well versed in everthing else. I think the third group is the used book store enthusiasts who have a wealth of literature at their disposal that has already survived the test of time.
@informalliteraryexperiments10 ай бұрын
It's a weird time for artists of all kind but the biggest advantage to the internet to me, is how a person or small group can easily distribute their work. I think the indie presses will be publishing the most interesting pieces of fiction whilst the big publishers pump out things that sell. The elite and the bottom will be catered for but the readers in the middle will find it hard. It's a big challenge.
@VillemarMxO8 ай бұрын
We've had these cyber-utopian dreams for three decades now. It hasn't worked and it never will especially once AI floods the zone, which will be very soon.
@orochimaru915510 ай бұрын
Karena pendidikan manusia bisa menjelajah bulan dan luar angkasa..
@roc788011 ай бұрын
If you feel depressed in the US, take a trip to some new place. Either way it will make u feel better.
@bardoface11 ай бұрын
What a Wall Ace. Ah life in the Labyrinth…
@notsoancientpelican11 ай бұрын
Inspires me to continue poetry with renewed faith in its purpose and its worth to the world.
@latenightlogic11 ай бұрын
Is it me or is everyone just missing the obvious answer. This is the capitalist system failure.
@nosferatu6011 ай бұрын
To cut this interview into pieces makes absolutely no sense. It just illustrates what DFW often criticized when it comes to culture. Thank God there is the complete interview on KZread!
@SergiiStarodubtsev11 ай бұрын
I liked it and found insightful. But some note: if now books are written by critics and phd students, how it is possible to sell this stuff on scale to be "easy fun". not everyone one is PHD students.
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This guy is big in the book world, but did nothing for the regular folk. He didn't preach black lives matter or me too. He killed himself rather than facing the ugliness.
Faulkner did several remakes of speeches. One he gave at Jill's high school graduation he re-stated it for a TV documentary (parts of which were included in the PBS presentation entitled Faulkner, A Life on Paper).
unfortunately this video is hard to find despite searching the exact title
Spokesman for a lost generation
Two things come to mind. One, fiction and literature in the US is a solitary effort and to take it on in the current climate a mammoth task given life, ambition, and responsibilties that loom. He had to know others would read into his mindset? Two, the subject matter is the exact reason anyone would give up. He was in the middle of an electric storm. He had set goals and to reach them he sacrificed his sanity. People on meds get off because of the side effects and not to fit in or seem cured? Was DFW fooled into meds and fooled when getting off them? A sane person would say the grey matter got to him but I think he was battling his own ego. That's if he wasn't hooked on smoking or drinking or anything else? That is my experience.
literary people are fucking gaaaaaaaaaaaay
Wish we had more of Daniel Jackson before he went through the Stargate.
Damn, 20 years later and I’m a 22 year old whose friends get mad at him for recommending books. Maybe it’s for the better he isn’t here to see how much worse it’s gotten.
Smart Mac
I have lost the ability to sit down and read. Decades of stimulation from tv, internet and cell phone have fried my dopamine receptors. It didn’t use to be like this for me 😢
Imagine he speaking and analysing social media and TikTok and all that crap. I hope so much he was alive.
I would have loved to hear his comments on video games, games like "Red Dead Redemption 2" or "The Last of Us 2", or more experimental pieces like "The Stanley Parable". Would've been highly interesting. It's really a tragedy that we lost such a brilliant mind.
* this is profoundly relatable to my current problems posed by ppl that's only ambition is to keep my life from me ⛬
* im stranded in a huge waste of time part of my life. and have had nothing to look at except the massive selfishness, immaturity, and grotesque greed. and not one soul around me is capable of a drop of honesty or sincerity. so finding these honest reflections from the past will have to settle as my only brain food for the last 13yrs ⛬
* the more I hear from him the more I agree ⛬ ♥
You win algorithm, I will indeed buy and read Infinite Jest.
The future of fiction will be found in the social studies section
“Helping us help eachother how to live”
It’s crazy a guy this eloquent/thoughtful can be such a huge dickhead/abuser in his personal life
…And Melville wrote Moby Dick in one year. Read that instead of Infinite Jest.
Did David come to these conclusions on his own? who guided him to this knowledge?
A genuinely fascinating guy. To me, he was literature’s equivalent of Chomsky. I rarely disagree with him.
Sublime lucidity. We need these people. They are the best among us - or were.
Go to any nursing home in the US and you will immediately understand how toxic and disgusting television is. Most residents are quite literally slaves to their odd TV schedules.
well slavery it is, when you every feeling, every whim dictates you life... pathologically... that's slavery
I'm always a little hesitant of people with two last names or two first names...
Agree with it except the idea that the Christian right wanted to do any of that, or that it ever had the ability to. The Christian right insurgency of the 80's and 90's was a grassroots sort of murmur against some actually terrible trends. Including the ones Foster speaks of. But for the most part, they only staged cultural protest and never seriously entertained or sought real powerr to compel anyone beyond mere persuasion. We would be in a better place , comparatively, today, if any of the ideas of the Christian right were made into policy. Or even enforced on people-- as people would indeed be happier with the sort of purpose and spiritual discipline it woupd entail. This is the great irony of DFW having been afraid of "fascism."
That moment when I realized he’s right about all those dumb people without any patience while watching at 1.5 speed 😮
classical music is hundreds of years old ofcourse it has no bearing now
its not your fault personally that you always feel like there is more to life. Its not your fault that you don' "just do it", there isnt just something wrong with YOU. You can carve out your own sanctuary, but you first must admit that something is wrong with this system and that you are just currently a part in it. Blaming yourself for the system you were born into will lead to suicide.
sad that film/tv has become a cheap glass excitement, it can be JUST as deep and engaging as a good book.
I think there is a tendency for people to get snobby and ignorant of what they see on a tv. They think there’s no value in critiquing set design or costumes… blocking, cinematography, music… let alone the writing and the acting. There is so much going on in some movies that you have got to watch it a dozen times to focus in on different aspects of the story telling. If you want to get snobby about how the same story was told in a tenth of the time and included the imaginations of other people that’s it’s somehow lesser than… expand your mind. You think you are thinking so much when you read but lots of the time it’s just consuming text the same way people consume any information. When the time comes you will just chatgpt blurt out whatever comes to your mind. Maybe you will sound more intelligent with the variety in your diction but as for the substance of your arguments being inherently better or your understanding deeper just because you read while others watch. De-lud-ed
I don’t think it’s that there’s nothing to critique, like you can’t sit down and watch a Marvel movie and decide to admire some things artistically in some respect and dislike other aspects. We are in an era of overstimulation though. So it’s easier if a movie that has a hundred billion dollar budget to be flashy while it hides that it’s an overall lazy piece of shit. There’s a place for everything, of course. And if everything was a Dostoyevsky novel or a Peirce essay life would be horrendously sad and dull. I think it’s pretty observable that there’s an instant gratification element to society today though, no?? And it gets reflected in what gets promoted. I mean, if you want us all to just be simple fucking monkeys then I’m down to fling feces. Just give me the signal
Thank you for posting this snippet of Wallace's (and Kafka's) brilliance.
David was an important voice to say the least. I think he overthought and wrote himself into a hell though. John Grisham, that’s right, Grisham said something like….“ I always know my ending when I begin a book. If you know where you are going you’ll never get lost. I’ve seen many writers not know their ending and the find themselves in a real predicament and get writers block and agony.” I imagine David wrote himself into a depressing completely not fun place with his own negativity and nihilistic seeing of our world through such depressing vision. Take note. If you hang out in depression laden topics!
This dudes theories are mid
They don’t appeal to our wants for fun they appeal to our fear of missing out
Selfcontroll is eroded and people become large infants, not fully realized adults. Celebrate your ability to controll your desires and endulge wisely when its ok to do so.
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work. A life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit. Not for glory, and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with purpose and significance of its origin. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will someday stand here where I am standing. Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear, so long sustained by now that we can’t even bare it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question, “When will I be blown up?” Because of this the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.
I get a sense of dread from reading books quiet often, usually if its something I dont like, I think its cause the words in a book are so solemn and lifeless and uniform, but when read they create another world.
I could listen to Faulkner talk until the last ding dong of doom has clanged and faded.
Another miserable Marxist moron.
I think there are two types of audiences: 1) The ones who buy what is out and come back to it. The sophists and such who are driven by the latest and greatest -- who make waves. 2) The ones who sit inside a small niche making it seem like everything worth anything is unearthed. 3) Then you have the classical, romance, foreign, and other genrists (including the deceased writers club) who are well versed in everthing else. I think the third group is the used book store enthusiasts who have a wealth of literature at their disposal that has already survived the test of time.
It's a weird time for artists of all kind but the biggest advantage to the internet to me, is how a person or small group can easily distribute their work. I think the indie presses will be publishing the most interesting pieces of fiction whilst the big publishers pump out things that sell. The elite and the bottom will be catered for but the readers in the middle will find it hard. It's a big challenge.
We've had these cyber-utopian dreams for three decades now. It hasn't worked and it never will especially once AI floods the zone, which will be very soon.
Karena pendidikan manusia bisa menjelajah bulan dan luar angkasa..
If you feel depressed in the US, take a trip to some new place. Either way it will make u feel better.
What a Wall Ace. Ah life in the Labyrinth…
Inspires me to continue poetry with renewed faith in its purpose and its worth to the world.
Is it me or is everyone just missing the obvious answer. This is the capitalist system failure.
To cut this interview into pieces makes absolutely no sense. It just illustrates what DFW often criticized when it comes to culture. Thank God there is the complete interview on KZread!
I liked it and found insightful. But some note: if now books are written by critics and phd students, how it is possible to sell this stuff on scale to be "easy fun". not everyone one is PHD students.