David Foster Wallace on Entertainment

Hey all,
I edited this little video with clips of this great interview originally uploaded by @ManufacturingIntellect , similar video created by @MorphingReality
His thoughts were so ahead of his time, if he could see the world now with the use of Tik Tok and smartphone apps he would scoff.

Recorded in 2003

[Mace]

He was already saying this in 2003, man he had no idea how much worse the instant gratification would get and how schizophrenic modern people would be.

[devil_pls]

David changed my life. I know this sounds so blown out of proportion and over the top but he truly made me think more in a way that you could consider more "real". I know saying that can make myself seem like I feel superior in any way over others when it comes to anything but it really doesn't make me feel that way. Instead I feel just way fuller as a human being in the way I experience life if that makes any sense. Anyways I absolutely love this man and am always happy when I think of him but also saddened since he left us way too early.

[katshura]

The most mind opening part is actually came when he said we are bound to worship something. If it’s not god it will be money, entertainment, and some other concept to fill the void in ourselves…

[dsrtsnw]

wish he was still here. we needed him. but he would have dreaded where we are now. so many so lost

[Tysca_]

And here we all are, on YouTube, expressing our deeply rooted right To Be Entertained.

[hotcarrots]

Yeah I have been trying to alter my life patterns for quite some time now. It does not always work but I know how I feel when it does. How I feel when I am more human instead of just a number being entertained.

[GManStritz]

Ah man, what an open source of realness

[Mindfookfilms]

I wonder what he would have to say about this tik tok gen if he was alive now.

[DIOGENEShound]

Dfw would be mortified by tik tok, instagram and yt shorts. Ive wasted so much time on it myself. It is the infinite jest entertainment cartridgem

[shortattentionspantheatre]

The equivalency of entertainment with infantilization is shockingly an indictment of our vapid society. Not new, but fatal because it's not.