Wednesday, May 8, 2013

David Foster Wallace: This Is Water


Worth watching more than once.  Reminds me of my brief stay at the box factory.

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true.  The only thing that is capital T 'True' is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.  This, I submit, is the freedom of real education. Of learning how to be 'well-adjusted.' You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.

Must we all circulate the same three articles that come across our feeds? Must we all share and re-share the same Huffington Posts articles and TED Talks?

Yes. Absolutely yes. (So long as it's David Foster Wallace).
Why? Because the modern condition is one of perpetual forgetting.

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