🚀 Do you want help finishing Infinite Jest? Or want a complete guide to follow while reading? Join my Infinite Jest Course and Book Club here: writeconscious.substack.com 📚 Explore over 400 of Wallace’s favorite books in my free guide to his favorite books Access here: writeconscious.ck.page/8956ce90fc 📖 Want to WRITE better? Join my free writing school: www.skool.com/writeconscious Insta: instagram.com/writeconscious 📕My Best Books of All-Time List: writeconscious.ck.page/355619345e 🔥Want to READ my wife’s fire poetry? Go here: marigoldeclipse.substack.com 🤔David Foster Wallace’s Favorite Book on Writing amzn.to/4eVmjAI
Wallace was an addict, so he had a tendency to project addiction onto almost everything he looked at. Entertainment, TV, porn, food, sports, etc. However, the vast majority of people who indulge in these pastimes are not addicted to them. Same with alcohol and drugs. To claim they are mostly all addicts is bizarre, and it reeks of a certain kind of pop psychology Puritanism that is often used to make people feel bad about themselves. “You are all miserable addicts!” Hey, life is tough for a lot of people. Who are we to scold them for seeking pleasure in various ways? Do you want someone writing about your “yoga addiction?” Of course not…
I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to consider 🌽 addictive in a similar sense to how we understand that sugar is addictive. Sugar and 🌽 are both not necessarily “bad,” and consumption in low doses is in fact very natural for the body. However, it’s unarguable that both sugar and 🌽 in high amounts has a profound impact on the brain. I remember when “male enhancement” was a cure for an embarrassing age-related condition. Today, it’s not uncommon at all to hear men in their 20s openly discussing their use of these pills. No doubt in my mind that this shift is related to young men growing up with free internet🌽 and a consequence has been early onset impotence. The internet has totally distorted the act of love making in the minds of so many young men and women that as adults they have found that they need to re-learn what it is.
Big Red Son is such a good essay, and it really is a fantastic insight into the industry, as well as the conniptions we have with the adult industry, the folly and ramifications on men's psyche, and the nature of sexual urges, mental gymnastics, and the counter-productive nature of sex, love, and pornos.
most people experience traumatic events but only a minority develop PTSD, it's wrong to tell your audience that they "probably have some kind of level of PTSD" because it's just not true haha. not trying to be overly critical, i just work in a psych lab that deals with anxiety disorders. PTSD is rare, it's abnormal by definition because it's a psychopathology. just like you wouldn't be depressed if you only had some of the criteria in the DSM but not all that are needed for a diagnosis. i do love DFW, i think big red son is an amazing essay. i was struck by his sharp ability to see through people so clearly, especially the way he described max hardcore, the way he was empathic to some of the actresses ("she appeared 14 for a second, it was heartbreaking") anyway love your channel and love cormac, gaiman and wallace. you have good taste.
I suggest an individual takes a step to learn. The statistical chance of failing is phenomenal if the individual uses fantasy in real life. That is why everyone should think and act in accordance. Why beg and end up where you thought you would end up anyway? Instead enter a new outlook and take a calculated risk. You may win big later on?
There are alot of men over 40 on TRT (testosterone replacement theropy) or just taking excessive amounts of testosterone (non-prescribed) and their libidos are through the roof...in conjunction with viagra, cialis...etc. That is an issue i dont hear anyone talking about in regards to porn addiction.
I've actually listened to the whole audiobook of the Big Red Son like 2 times now ( its pretty long btw ) and man what a ride that one is. Definitely recommended who hasn't checked it out yet. I feel like its not as much recognized as his other work. Maybe because it deals with a very specific subject whereas allot of his other stuff seems to work on very broad levels if that makes sense.
As an educator I think the practice of repeating to allow the truth a way to exist to return to it again refreshed is a good tactic to explain the "fantastical" behavior I think you are pinpointing. It explains why we were a certain way or when we were caught not really thinking through the need versus the flesh appeal. I think DFW explains it is too easy to be in that bunt and not think outside of ourselves. That is not reality. In my book years later (after the guilt pushes away) you can chalk it up as experience but who is to say whether the experience should have happened at all? The philosophy of dating requires "going out" but what if you only have $5 in your pocket? She needs to let her male counterpart know when he is overthinking? I admit being there but I wonder if others know good people exist in the world still? That is the first thing thrown to the wayside.
Hello. I would like to know if there is a video about Foster Wallace and Cormac McCarthy. I'm from Brazil and his channel has been an interesting source about this writer who is like an alien cathedral
I don’t think men and women generally hate each other. I think at present, there is an elevated level of hatred between the sexes. Men didn’t keep women from voting out of hatred, but because women were thought of as belonging in the domestic sphere. There’s a long history of women in politics, but male historians viewed those situations as anomalous and destructive of public morality and the health of the state (and, to their point, the welfare state only blew up in the US and Britain once women got the vote). Men also (and I think this was the main reason) wanted to keep their own wives away from the “corruption” and “impurity” of things like politics, and (though they are never read or cited today) there were many women who agreed with men about that. Data on domestic violence shows that relationships between two women tend statistically to be more violent than heterosexual relationships. The reason why seems to be that near equality in power actually leads to conflict that tends to be resolved with physical force.
I yearn for the never-to-be DFW essay about the generations of women who grew up being told by the TV to emulate girls like Amanda Bynes who put up with so much abuse and degradation behind the scenes. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men is underrated
This is one of Wallace weakest essays. Overlong, condescending, offering very few insights, surface level. Also hypocritical given his own attitude towards women, and lacking empathy, very snobish too. He succeeds in portraying it as a surreal affaor but he hammers his points to the death and offers a lot of very boring and uninteresting things. I mean avn awards are amateurish - noone is surprised by that. His predictions about snuff films failed and he failed to go deeper or to explore human side of it. He comes off as more diagusting than the absurd event he was portraying. Such a contrast with his other essays where he offers his empathic toughts beautifully formulated. The only worse writing from him that i saw was his 2003 math book which is trully terrible full of errors and lack of understanding of elementary cobcepts be is trying to portray - its an utter failure even more appaling given that he has learned this studf in college being a philospphy major with a bent on math, it really shows his intelectual limitations.
🚀 Do you want help finishing Infinite Jest? Or want a complete guide to follow while reading?
Join my Infinite Jest Course and Book Club here: writeconscious.substack.com
📚 Explore over 400 of Wallace’s favorite books in my free guide to his favorite books
Access here: writeconscious.ck.page/8956ce90fc
📖 Want to WRITE better? Join my free writing school: www.skool.com/writeconscious
Insta: instagram.com/writeconscious
📕My Best Books of All-Time List: writeconscious.ck.page/355619345e
🔥Want to READ my wife’s fire poetry? Go here: marigoldeclipse.substack.com
🤔David Foster Wallace’s Favorite Book on Writing amzn.to/4eVmjAI
Wallace was an addict, so he had a tendency to project addiction onto almost everything he looked at. Entertainment, TV, porn, food, sports, etc. However, the vast majority of people who indulge in these pastimes are not addicted to them. Same with alcohol and drugs. To claim they are mostly all addicts is bizarre, and it reeks of a certain kind of pop psychology Puritanism that is often used to make people feel bad about themselves. “You are all miserable addicts!” Hey, life is tough for a lot of people. Who are we to scold them for seeking pleasure in various ways? Do you want someone writing about your “yoga addiction?” Of course not…
I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to consider 🌽 addictive in a similar sense to how we understand that sugar is addictive. Sugar and 🌽 are both not necessarily “bad,” and consumption in low doses is in fact very natural for the body. However, it’s unarguable that both sugar and 🌽 in high amounts has a profound impact on the brain. I remember when “male enhancement” was a cure for an embarrassing age-related condition. Today, it’s not uncommon at all to hear men in their 20s openly discussing their use of these pills. No doubt in my mind that this shift is related to young men growing up with free internet🌽 and a consequence has been early onset impotence. The internet has totally distorted the act of love making in the minds of so many young men and women that as adults they have found that they need to re-learn what it is.
you are actually wrong.
Big Red Son is such a good essay, and it really is a fantastic insight into the industry, as well as the conniptions we have with the adult industry, the folly and ramifications on men's psyche, and the nature of sexual urges, mental gymnastics, and the counter-productive nature of sex, love, and pornos.
most people experience traumatic events but only a minority develop PTSD, it's wrong to tell your audience that they "probably have some kind of level of PTSD" because it's just not true haha. not trying to be overly critical, i just work in a psych lab that deals with anxiety disorders. PTSD is rare, it's abnormal by definition because it's a psychopathology. just like you wouldn't be depressed if you only had some of the criteria in the DSM but not all that are needed for a diagnosis. i do love DFW, i think big red son is an amazing essay. i was struck by his sharp ability to see through people so clearly, especially the way he described max hardcore, the way he was empathic to some of the actresses ("she appeared 14 for a second, it was heartbreaking") anyway love your channel and love cormac, gaiman and wallace. you have good taste.
I suggest an individual takes a step to learn. The statistical chance of failing is phenomenal if the individual uses fantasy in real life. That is why everyone should think and act in accordance. Why beg and end up where you thought you would end up anyway? Instead enter a new outlook and take a calculated risk. You may win big later on?
There are alot of men over 40 on TRT (testosterone replacement theropy) or just taking excessive amounts of testosterone (non-prescribed) and their libidos are through the roof...in conjunction with viagra, cialis...etc. That is an issue i dont hear anyone talking about in regards to porn addiction.
A true believer here. Love your passion. Love your channel. thank you. If I weren't a starving artist myself, I'd throw money at you😅
I've actually listened to the whole audiobook of the Big Red Son like 2 times now ( its pretty long btw ) and man what a ride that one is. Definitely recommended who hasn't checked it out yet. I feel like its not as much recognized as his other work. Maybe because it deals with a very specific subject whereas allot of his other stuff seems to work on very broad levels if that makes sense.
Would you be kind to share which platform did you use to listen it? I’m intrested, but can’t find the audiobook here on youtube.
@@Edoom17 you did not try very hard to search the title and click the first option did you???
@@loon4830 what are you talking about? There is only DFWs 2 hour read. I’m talking about the whole book
@@Edoom17 this is a video and comment about BIG RED SON. you asked for a copy of BIG RED SON. now pretend you wanted something else little baby.
Always great content. Thank you.
As an educator I think the practice of repeating to allow the truth a way to exist to return to it again refreshed is a good tactic to explain the "fantastical" behavior I think you are pinpointing. It explains why we were a certain way or when we were caught not really thinking through the need versus the flesh appeal. I think DFW explains it is too easy to be in that bunt and not think outside of ourselves. That is not reality. In my book years later (after the guilt pushes away) you can chalk it up as experience but who is to say whether the experience should have happened at all? The philosophy of dating requires "going out" but what if you only have $5 in your pocket? She needs to let her male counterpart know when he is overthinking? I admit being there but I wonder if others know good people exist in the world still? That is the first thing thrown to the wayside.
Hello. I would like to know if there is a video about Foster Wallace and Cormac McCarthy. I'm from Brazil and his channel has been an interesting source about this writer who is like an alien cathedral
Alien cathedral. What a fantastic term.
Brilliant Ian!👏🏻
Sorry if you already have made this, but it would be interesting if you could make a video on the epilogue in the cities of the plain
Complex trauma is not simple
Where did you get your ATPH shirt from??
My t-shirt website. I am relaunching it this week with some sick new designs which hopefully include a couple more ATPH horses shirts!
Will post it about it on the community tab when it launches
I like how you describe how men and women hate each other but frame it as a natural part of feminine-masculine dance
I don’t think men and women generally hate each other. I think at present, there is an elevated level of hatred between the sexes.
Men didn’t keep women from voting out of hatred, but because women were thought of as belonging in the domestic sphere. There’s a long history of women in politics, but male historians viewed those situations as anomalous and destructive of public morality and the health of the state (and, to their point, the welfare state only blew up in the US and Britain once women got the vote). Men also (and I think this was the main reason) wanted to keep their own wives away from the “corruption” and “impurity” of things like politics, and (though they are never read or cited today) there were many women who agreed with men about that.
Data on domestic violence shows that relationships between two women tend statistically to be more violent than heterosexual relationships. The reason why seems to be that near equality in power actually leads to conflict that tends to be resolved with physical force.
I dub thee Sir Ian, Knight of Word and Wisdom, Buddy to countless Buddies.
Oh my god the point you make at 12:23 😳
lol, most of them are as dumb as a pile of rocks and would sell their soul for anything
I yearn for the never-to-be DFW essay about the generations of women who grew up being told by the TV to emulate girls like Amanda Bynes who put up with so much abuse and degradation behind the scenes.
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men is underrated
What would you say are the top three most life-changing books you've read and how did they affect your outlook on life?
Anything you want to watch available at any time
This is one of Wallace weakest essays. Overlong, condescending, offering very few insights, surface level. Also hypocritical given his own attitude towards women, and lacking empathy, very snobish too. He succeeds in portraying it as a surreal affaor but he hammers his points to the death and offers a lot of very boring and uninteresting things. I mean avn awards are amateurish - noone is surprised by that. His predictions about snuff films failed and he failed to go deeper or to explore human side of it. He comes off as more diagusting than the absurd event he was portraying. Such a contrast with his other essays where he offers his empathic toughts beautifully formulated. The only worse writing from him that i saw was his 2003 math book which is trully terrible full of errors and lack of understanding of elementary cobcepts be is trying to portray - its an utter failure even more appaling given that he has learned this studf in college being a philospphy major with a bent on math, it really shows his intelectual limitations.
do you believe that writing can be self-taught?
do you believe that fiction gets better when other people take a look at it and give you opinion?
The difference between the act of love and rape is love. This thin line, from the same act, is ego or greed. Pornography is consensual rape.