It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.
David Foster WallaceTag: advertising anxiety ads
American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.
David Foster Wallacesarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.
David Foster WallaceA U.S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.
David Foster Wallacelife's endless war against the self you cannot live without.
David Foster WallaceThat it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people... That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.
David Foster WallaceThey can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.
David Foster WallaceTE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST.
David Foster WallaceWhat TV is extremely good at—and realize that this is "all it does"—is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
David Foster WallaceYou will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
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