I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world.
David Foster WallaceTags: art serious-art
I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the
speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.
Tags: irony sentimentality naive
Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making
devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous.
Tags: comedy irony pretentious-weenies naivete pompous
I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt as
sadness.
Advertising that makes fun of itself is so powerful because it
implicitly congratulates both itself and the viewer (for making the joke and
getting the joke, respectively).
Tags: advertising self-referential
Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.
David Foster WallaceTrying to be anti-cool is just one exponent off trying to be cool -- it's the same beast.
David Foster WallaceTags: coolness
Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.
David Foster WallaceTags: dieting dieting-humor
The really important kind of freedom involves attention ad awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad, petty, unsexy ways every day.
David Foster WallaceTags: kenyon-graduation-speech
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?".....
It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:
"This is water."
"This is water.
Tags: this-is-water
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