DFW was very specific on his worries of the shortening of media; I remember reading a bunch of his work in college before I got sucked into the void of social media. Unfortunately it didn't help keep me from getting into it, but it did give me perspective of it from the get-go and now I can appreciate his work even more.
@@laurapiotukh8695 “there will be times where you have to walk alone and it will be completely necessary. It will be necessary because you are going to a place that only you can find.”
This clip reminds me of that one comedian who said something like “there’s a reason why when people are driving their cars, they have music playing”. It’s to fill that empty void and sometimes silence speaks more volumes than actual speakers; but we don’t like the messages of silence as we do with music from the speakers. Playing music stops you from what you’re scared to think about.
I don't disagree, but I'd also say that some people like listening to music (much on the same way people like reading novels). You can't read while you're driving, so maybe it's a good time to check out some music. The setting can impact the activity.
Ironic to comment this on a super shittily-worded rambling of a dude who was drunk so often that he killed himself. He wasn’t brilliant. He was sick and un-helped.
@@firemantimmy5367 Just because he had a rough personal life doesn't mean he didn't make great contributions to humanity through his writing and speaking
@@firemantimmy5367Oh, the absolute irony of your very unquiet comment. I hear what I think you’re trying to say, however, I don’t believe in reasoning with loud ignorance. I’ll see myself out…
I'd say, boredom is the anxiety surrounding the being alone, whereas what we have to aim for is being alone and yet not feel bored. Being alone and having fun doing so.
Now the gas stations have a TV screen that starts yapping loudly as soon as you start pumping. Denny's has TV screens playing. No body asked for these.
Everyone knows this. Basic humanity. People have said this since the beginning of time. It’s still true and good to say. But it’s not like he came up with this idea.
I was lucky, then I was blessed. I understand what he was saying. But my rebellion against a tyrannical world has been to lean to cherish my alone time. I have reached a point where I triage my battles, depending on my then present state. But I am still willing to risk another relationship but only with a woman who knows both her value and her values, and I will come alive. Great framing & production. -Dan
I enjoy reading but i totally get this. My attn span is garbage and I think ten pages is probably the most I can read in one sitting, even if I'm enjoying the book.
I recently made a video on boredom - and DFW's words strikes right to the heart of it. There's a kind of dread in the idea of having to be alone for a while.
i used to also share this sentiment i was wrong you need connection you need people, being alone with your own thoughts, actively alienating yourself for too long leads to bad things. It's hard to notice the negative effects at first because its so enjoyable, you shrug off the pain of isolation because of the benefits, but madness creeps masking as intellectual epiphanies or what seem like fringe perspective breakthroughs, before you know it you're a covert nut. Depending on how smart you are you can stave off the madness seemingly well until eventually your mind is tricked into believing the logic of illogic.
I wouldn't mind at times if it was some Jazz from the 50's or classical music but with few exceptions, it is the most vapid and generic canned music that is soul crushing and just feeds my hatred for society.
I don't mind being alone in a quiet place, but I still hate reading, yet I do it to impress my dad, who died 22 years ago. Well, that and I love learning things.
And even if you find a quiet space that you want to invite other people into to have meaningful conversations... you find the dread of how loud and out of place everyone else in a quiet space.
I truly think that this man would have so much to contribute to the world today if he was still alive. Most of what he is says could be applied to our reality today. But he was the only one who knew the pain he felt inside so I dont judge him at all. But I wish he knew that on the other side of the dark nights of the souls is usually where the treasure is at. RIP DFW
I love DFW, but I wish that he wrote the way he spoke. There's a different tone and passion in his speech, and I would have liked to felt that in his books.
there is no meaning of life...... just distractions, which make us forget that life is meaningless...... once you turn those distractions off, suddenly you can hear the "demons of meaninglessness" - me
I appreciate someone calling that out about public spaces playing loud obnoxious music... it's only worse than when this was recorded. People shouldn't have to put up with having to tune out the most inflammatory & obnoxious ear pollution that makes up top40 sameness at too many places it should never be... Why not something in the background instrumental or ambient, so its left up to interpretation, instead of having someone's overly gratuitous lyrics or self indulgent singing, that's not even suited for public consumption, let alone a "guilty pleasure"...
America is never quiet ever. People talk loud, have phones on speaker, play Bluetooth at the park and party speakers in their yard. Coming from Europe, I couldn’t believe how loud the US is. There is nowhere quiet. Even national parks everyone camps in RVs and plays music or sets up TVs.
I feel so much helpless rage when J go out in nature and people are playing something on a speaker/monitor. I live in the US and I only go to parks during the week to try to avoid the noise.
It is about sponsorship. If somebody is providing it in the right environment the world is at your finger tips. Very rare to find in a bedroom, public library, or in some coffee shop or cafe. People know who the literate one is and the feeling of guilt overshadows real progress. For years I have been living that...
People are conditioned by the environment they live in. This avoidance of quiet he talks about is caused by the consequences of an overstimulating sensory environment. People who enjoy quiet are also likely to be readers. Technology is a threat to quiet because it bombards people with external noise stimulation. ADHD and many of the mental illnesses people are suffering from, comes out of this overstimulation. Particularly if television was the babysitter in childhood.
"We" refers to big segment of the citizens from the USA. During the (full) interview he is reluctant to include Europe or other countries in here. Also he is incredibly articulate about every single word he uses during the whole interview.
The irony of watching this on a TH-cam short.
Nicely done!
Lold
I think of these as bread crumbs leading people to the reality of the message 💚
😂😂👏👏
DFW was very specific on his worries of the shortening of media; I remember reading a bunch of his work in college before I got sucked into the void of social media. Unfortunately it didn't help keep me from getting into it, but it did give me perspective of it from the get-go and now I can appreciate his work even more.
You can feel this in every page of The Pale King.
I heard that it is unfinished, although I think it is for sale. Would the unfinished version be worth it?
@@vanshgaint absolutely. It's my favorite of his works.
I would not start there but it’s worth it
@@canaledikoslov5475 where should I start?
@@vanshgaintonly if you're already a fan of his writing
I love myself the most when I’m alone.
creativity stems from boredom, and nobody is bored since social media, hence the decline in creativity
PREACH. Holy shit this is IT.
Silence is Sacred.
So many people cannot spend time with themselves.
There is a German quotation that says, "Die Einsamkeit ist die Schule der Weiskeit" means solitude is the school of wisdom.
@@laurapiotukh8695 “there will be times where you have to walk alone and it will be completely necessary. It will be necessary because you are going to a place that only you can find.”
@@laurapiotukh8695 danke
It also masks the profound loneliness of broken families and marriages.
It's painful. Silence brings up alot we don't want to hear
This clip reminds me of that one comedian who said something like “there’s a reason why when people are driving their cars, they have music playing”. It’s to fill that empty void and sometimes silence speaks more volumes than actual speakers; but we don’t like the messages of silence as we do with music from the speakers. Playing music stops you from what you’re scared to think about.
@@germane9098 The silence may talk back to you very loudly.
@@germane9098Or scared to feel
I don't disagree, but I'd also say that some people like listening to music (much on the same way people like reading novels). You can't read while you're driving, so maybe it's a good time to check out some music. The setting can impact the activity.
Like my tinnitus. Sssssssssssssssssssssss
David Foster Wallace was an incredible writer and thinker of our century. I miss him 😢
Ironic to comment this on a super shittily-worded rambling of a dude who was drunk so often that he killed himself. He wasn’t brilliant. He was sick and un-helped.
@@firemantimmy5367 Just because he had a rough personal life doesn't mean he didn't make great contributions to humanity through his writing and speaking
@@firemantimmy5367Oh, the absolute irony of your very unquiet comment. I hear what I think you’re trying to say, however, I don’t believe in reasoning with loud ignorance. I’ll see myself out…
Why attack another person over this ?
@@haroldcheeseburger exactly 🙄
I love this man so much.
This spoke to me on another level. In the age of distraction, boredom is a superpower.
I'd say, boredom is the anxiety surrounding the being alone, whereas what we have to aim for is being alone and yet not feel bored. Being alone and having fun doing so.
I have horrible tinnitus. I can't ever be in a quiet room. I long for silence.
Praying for you !
And this interview was pre-iphone, I believe. Just imagine DFW's thoughts of 2022.
He off'd himself so he wouldn't see today's world and general lifestyle
@@noluntas yeah, I think he saw the writing on the wall. You can sense his prescience in everything he does and says.
Just read his work then
@@noluntasHe would have been alive for about a year after the first iphone released.
He was suffering much like Robin Williams at the end. 🙏 please, respect?
My search ends here.
You lying.
Or lied.
Liededed
Now the gas stations have a TV screen that starts yapping loudly as soon as you start pumping. Denny's has TV screens playing. No body asked for these.
It’s brutal. Ads are everywhere, constantly changing to grab attention.
Some of the wisest words any of us will ever hear.
Everyone knows this. Basic humanity. People have said this since the beginning of time. It’s still true and good to say. But it’s not like he came up with this idea.
Some people read as they walk through my neighborhood...in the city, like walking while phone surfing
the dread is because they don't want to face things alone.
Many introverts cherish silent solitude.
Rare footage of Davie without the dew rag. He seems peaceful here. When I knew him, his head was always about to explode.
i think he started to wear it only on the ever so often in the 2000s once it became expected of him
Sacred silence, that thou art.
Floodgate of the deeper heart.
Offspring of a heavenly kind,
Frost o’re the mouth,
And thou the mind.
- Flecknoe
I was lucky, then I was blessed. I understand what he was saying.
But my rebellion against a tyrannical world has been to lean to cherish my alone time.
I have reached a point where I triage my battles, depending on my then present state.
But I am still willing to risk another relationship but only with a woman who knows both her value and her values, and I will come alive.
Great framing & production.
-Dan
I enjoy reading but i totally get this. My attn span is garbage and I think ten pages is probably the most I can read in one sitting, even if I'm enjoying the book.
I recently made a video on boredom - and DFW's words strikes right to the heart of it. There's a kind of dread in the idea of having to be alone for a while.
If I have to sit with my thoughts for even a second, I instantly regret it.
So right. In Vegas there is even music in the bathroom.
Peace and Quiet is the best thing in the world and we could all use some
I ironically find I feel way more dread in loud public settings now the older I get than in quiet peaceful solitude.
Как же мне нравится его голос
Me too
Couldn't agree more
i used to also share this sentiment i was wrong you need connection you need people, being alone with your own thoughts, actively alienating yourself for too long leads to bad things.
It's hard to notice the negative effects at first because its so enjoyable, you shrug off the pain of isolation because of the benefits, but madness creeps masking as intellectual epiphanies or what seem like fringe perspective breakthroughs, before you know it you're a covert nut.
Depending on how smart you are you can stave off the madness seemingly well until eventually your mind is tricked into believing the logic of illogic.
I love this so much
Grocery store music is psychological terror, in most bars and restaurants it feels very off aswell.
I wouldn't mind at times if it was some Jazz from the 50's or classical music but with few exceptions, it is the most vapid and generic canned music that is soul crushing and just feeds my hatred for society.
I don't mind being alone in a quiet place, but I still hate reading, yet I do it to impress my dad, who died 22 years ago. Well, that and I love learning things.
And even if you find a quiet space that you want to invite other people into to have meaningful conversations... you find the dread of how loud and out of place everyone else in a quiet space.
I truly think that this man would have so much to contribute to the world today if he was still alive. Most of what he is says could be applied to our reality today. But he was the only one who knew the pain he felt inside so I dont judge him at all. But I wish he knew that on the other side of the dark nights of the souls is usually where the treasure is at. RIP DFW
This is so profound. I don’t think I could watch a longer version though.
I imagine those who have not read any of his work might be surprised at how funny he is
I love DFW, but I wish that he wrote the way he spoke. There's a different tone and passion in his speech, and I would have liked to felt that in his books.
The sound of silence.
This man was so far outside the box
Wallace knew where the internet was going, I believe it was the reason he checked out.
doubt it.. selfishly scared of the internet? it was personal issues most likely
That’s such a nasty thing to say about a man who took his own life
He was suffering like Robin Williams at the end. Respect, please?
Dang. Truth bro. Rip
The irony of watching this on TH-cam shorts.
there is no meaning of life...... just distractions, which make us forget that life is meaningless...... once you turn those distractions off, suddenly you can hear the "demons of meaninglessness"
- me
You humans with all your silly ideas of meaning. You make your meaning silly
Taking for granted life being pointless, wouldn't it be rather absurd to feel one way or another about that fact? It's irrelevant if that's the case.
I like reading, but i cant get myself to start, so i dont read.
Fr
Philosopher
Accurate
I can't handle silence because I have tinnitus.
*WAIT*
This isn't Jason Sudeikis
😮
God speaks to us in silence.
Ufff
Music is strategically played, or maliciously, in parking lots overnight to deter loitering, overnight parking, etc. sad.
This is a cut out of him
I wonder if DFW's hunger for silence informed his decision not to stay.😢
Is America afraid of the quite? The music is background noise to drown out the possibility of quite.
Constant distractions...and reacting vs. thinking.
I appreciate someone calling that out about public spaces playing loud obnoxious music... it's only worse than when this was recorded.
People shouldn't have to put up with having to tune out the most inflammatory & obnoxious ear pollution that makes up top40 sameness at too many places it should never be...
Why not something in the background instrumental or ambient, so its left up to interpretation, instead of having someone's overly gratuitous lyrics or self indulgent singing, that's not even suited for public consumption, let alone a "guilty pleasure"...
Noise pollution is real!
America is never quiet ever. People talk loud, have phones on speaker, play Bluetooth at the park and party speakers in their yard. Coming from Europe, I couldn’t believe how loud the US is. There is nowhere quiet. Even national parks everyone camps in RVs and plays music or sets up TVs.
I feel so much helpless rage when J go out in nature and people are playing something on a speaker/monitor. I live in the US and I only go to parks during the week to try to avoid the noise.
It is about sponsorship. If somebody is providing it in the right environment the world is at your finger tips. Very rare to find in a bedroom, public library, or in some coffee shop or cafe. People know who the literate one is and the feeling of guilt overshadows real progress. For years I have been living that...
People are conditioned by the environment they live in. This avoidance of quiet he talks about is caused by the consequences of an overstimulating sensory environment. People who enjoy quiet are also likely to be readers. Technology is a threat to quiet because it bombards people with external noise stimulation. ADHD and many of the mental illnesses people are suffering from, comes out of this overstimulation. Particularly if television was the babysitter in childhood.
Who's we
"We" refers to big segment of the citizens from the USA. During the (full) interview he is reluctant to include Europe or other countries in here. Also he is incredibly articulate about every single word he uses during the whole interview.
You DON'T HAVE TO BE ALONE WHEN READING THAT IS CLEARLY WRONG..DUH Why has no one else commented this, I'm surprised?
i think dfw would peel off his own skin if he learned about youtube shorts
Putting DFW as a TH-cam short is honestly so disrespectful to his legacy.
Can’t take this dude seriously pretty much do the opposite of what he says
Nope, not ever going to take any life advice from a suicide.
I have tinnitus...enjoy your silence because i have none lmao