David Foster Wallace on Importance of Quiet
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2022
- David Foster Wallace is considered one of the greatest fiction writers of the late 20th century. He is widely known for his 1996 best-seller "Infinite Jest", he is also the author of "The Pale King", "Consider the Lobster", "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", and others. In this clip, he describes the importance of quiet amidst the noise in our society today.
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The irony of watching this on a UA-cam short.
Nicely done!
Lold
I think of these as bread crumbs leading people to the reality of the message 💚
😂😂👏👏
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?
I love myself the most when I’m alone.
This spoke to me on another level. In the age of distraction, boredom is a superpower.
Silence is Sacred.
So many people cannot spend time with themselves.
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.
It also masks the profound loneliness of broken families and marriages.
My search ends here.
You lying.
Or lied.
creativity stems from boredom, and nobody is bored since social media, hence the decline in creativity
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.
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
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?
I have horrible tinnitus. I can't ever be in a quiet room. I long for silence.
So right. In Vegas there is even music in the bathroom.
Many introverts cherish silent solitude.
Dang. Truth bro. Rip
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.
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 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 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
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
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.
If I have to sit with my thoughts for even a second, I instantly regret it.
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 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
the dread is because they don't want to face things alone.
Как же мне нравится его голос
Me too
Accurate
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.
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.
The irony of watching this on UA-cam shorts.
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 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.
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?
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.
*WAIT*
This isn't Jason Sudeikis
😮
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...
God speaks to us in silence.
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.
Music is strategically played, or maliciously, in parking lots overnight to deter loitering, overnight parking, etc. sad.
This is a cut out of him
Is America afraid of the quite? The music is background noise to drown out the possibility of quite.
Constant distractions...and reacting vs. thinking.
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.
Noise pollution is real!
i think dfw would peel off his own skin if he learned about youtube shorts
Nope, not ever going to take any life advice from a suicide.
I have tinnitus...enjoy your silence because i have none lmao