Give it to me straight, how horrified would he be at the current state of the world?

>>24549739 (OP)
This thread is posted almost daily, but for what reason?
Yes he’d hate TikTok and the current state of the internet because he himself was addicted to slop but aware of it.
The late 2000s weren’t that different from how things are now.

>>24549739 (OP)
sorry I don't respect Suiciders unless it's honorable in a Shakespearean or Japanese way.

>>24549753
Late 2000s vs. 2020s is night and day, what are you, a teenager?

>>24549739 (OP)
He might have liked it. It would have helped him stalk a 5 year old easier.

>>24549772
lol what

>>24549771
No way you actually believe that. One addiction replacing another doesn’t make society vastly different. Things being slightly worse doesn’t make it ”night and day”. Just because you’re nostalgic for your childhood doesn’t mean the adults at the time had to deal with the same shit we do now.

>>24549784
I was in highschool durning the late 2000s so I absolutely do believe that.

>>24549786
Then your view of things is very limited. Try to look at the bigger picture instead of thinking history started the moment you were born.

>>24549775
Look it up

>>24549789
History didn't. But technology did.

>>24549793
I get your point but the technology only satisfies needs that already existed and were satisfied by other means. The difference between zapping between different TV channels and scrolling TikTok is not vastly different, which is one of the key points in Infinite Jest itself.

If I resurrect him from the dead, will he cry?

>>24549800
So people had an inherent need that channel surfing was satisfying? Where did that need come from then? Radio? If so, was that need there before the radio? Or is it the technology that creates the need that was not present beforehand?

>>24549809
Have you even read IJ? Try to look a bit deeper than just ”a need for channel surfing”. People want to be entertained, that’s always been the case.
What technology that can satisfy a certain need is less interesting to examine in this context compared to societal norms, which have largely stayed the same the past 20 years, simply progressing somewhat in a predictable direction.

>>24549819
Fair enough

Who cares
DFW sucks

>>24549862
He was more insightful than most

>>24549739 (OP)
Enough to kill himself

>>24549739 (OP)
He would've gotten #MeToo'd real hard and killed himself after Mary Karr started talking about him

>>24549940
kek

>>24549800
Channel surfing and tiktok scrolling scratch similar itches, but the mediums themselves are so different that the comparison doesn't hold. Beyond the obvious part of the average tiktok being closer to the length of a TV ad than a TV show or movie, tiktok is also a lot less communal.
People might sit and watch TV together, but it's much less common to sit and watch tiktok together for any prolonged amount of time. You might send the video to a friend, but normally you both watch it separately absorbed in your small phone screens. The limited relevant channels on TV also aided in creating a shared culture of stories, while the user-tailored feed of tiktok leaves everyone in their own digital micro-culture.

>>24550002
I think the social aspects of the two mediums are close enough as well. Sure you can watch TV with someone, but it’s not what I’d call a social experience.
The biggest difference is the form factor, with your phone being with you at all times; the problem being that you’re not really present even during social gatherings. The constant need to live a fake life for others to observe is rather new, but still existed to some extent when DFW was alive. Things are undeniably worse, but it’s not like he’d be shocked to see anything currently going on.

>>24549739 (OP)
No more than the rest of us.
...although we haven't killed ourselves yet, I suppose

>>24550023
>Sure you can watch TV with someone, but it’s not what I’d call a social experience.
It most definitely is