Thread 24547878

Thoughts on DFW's commencement speech "This is Water"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbGM4mqEVw&list=LL&index=1

i am stricken by the fact that some are cursed by language, it diminishes them. they still have no choice but to rely on it, but no matter what they use it to say will be marred by the transmutation of its expression. some are well prepared for this sort of torment in that they only speak what is to be said. but how many of us are constipated with things to express with just a tiny orifice to slap it out? dfw's memories walk with music, and his speech betrays a poetry he'd never be able to write.

I like that he uses typical liberal whining as examples of how not to think or things that ought not to be dwelled on.

The thought exercise he talks about around 15:00 is great advice; very helpful for day-to-day mindfulness and mental health, especially in a big city.

>>24547878 (OP)
one of the goats

tiresome boomershit

>>24547878 (OP)
It's helped me feel a bit better about things in some trying circumstances. >>24549413 is not wrong, but boomers were not always wrong either and DFW was largely right here.

Although I get similar and deeper thoughts when reading Whitman's Song of Myself and the 'universe as a series of roads for the progress of souls' part of Song of the Open Road, desu senpai, so I usually turn to Whitman before Wallaxe.