Fish noticing water
Being an educated slave doesnt stop you being a slave.
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There is a serous topic here. I do wish i would lighten up sometimes ;( It is very sad that such a talented writer decided to kill himself. Being an educated slave doesnt stop you being a slave. There is a subtext to this that really pushes my buttons. It is well written and i love the concept of fish and water which im sure ive seen somewhere else. This guy mentions it about 10 seconds in recorded 1992. Micheal talbot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ-3m5W4cp4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Dennis dalton makes a similar allusion in his lecture on marxism and alienation. Killing yourself doesnt validate your ideas especially if they are about freedom and dealing with life. It reminds me of fight club, choose life from trainspotting. Bitter, condescending, self righteous and ultimately depressing. Being an educated slave doesnt stop you being a slave. “All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.” ― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories It echoes the nietzchian staring into the abyss realising the futility and pointlessness of life and then going mad and killing oneself. https://www.facebook.com/holt.brendon/posts/563035010429628?comment_id=79543552&ref=notif¬if_t=like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaVrn1Sz0H8&sns=em http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace Wallace's fiction is often concerned with irony. His essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction",[26] originally published in the small-circulation Review of Contemporary Fiction in 1993, proposes that television has an ironic influence on fiction writing, and urges literary authors to eschew TV's shallow rebelliousness: "I want to convince you that irony, poker-faced silence, and fear of ridicule are distinctive of those features of contemporary U.S. culture (of which cutting-edge fiction is a part) that enjoy any significant relation to the television whose weird pretty hand has my generation by the throat. I'm going to argue that irony and ridicule are entertaining and effective, and that at the same time they are agents of a great despair and stasis in U.S. culture, and that for aspiring fictionists they pose terrifically vexing problems." Wallace used many forms of irony, but focused on individuals' continued longing for earnest, unselfconscious experience and communication in a media-saturated society.[27] Literary critic Adam Kirsch said that Wallace's "self-conscious earnestness" and "hostility to irony defined a literary generation".[28] rorschach77511 hours ago In a way, this is a pretty horrible speech. At about 5:00 I can't be the only one who doesn't need to constantly remind myself not to hate people. I actually like people. I like shooting the shit with the store clerks. I like shuffling around lost in the grocery store. I don't have a problem going outside after work. I prefer it, to farting around in front of the TV. jinhur11 hours ago i believe, the bottom line, or ur idea of his bottom line, may be determined as something that is not preliminary but an after effect, only gained, or permitted to thereafter, by higher education. something that people could come to their senses or, should i say, SHOULD because others are in essence experiencing misery u cannot imagine. in that respect i believe its condescending n bitter. altho* at first be may be very, very sweet. but i never said people dont like sour candies. so yea. cheers Jorge Coria 3 Sep 2013 i think someones being a bit self righteous. who are you to question someone elses motives for living a life they truly find fulfilling? maybe instead of attacking another persons recipe for happiness on youtube, maybe you should be out changing the world with all the empathy you have. xcherryjonesx17 Aug 2013 Did you watch until the end of the video? Middle class corporate American's aside- the intent was to make one realize that too much of your waking life is spent thinking about problems, but all you see is someone complaining about "first world problems". If they broadened the subject, the person, to appeal to someone with "actual problems" the message would still apply. You have freedom in your mind, if you choose to not be a prisoner of your environment. All people can benefit from this Choose life I just find the ideological duality grating ... Tell me more Ewan mcgregor and Danny boyle about the emptiness of consumerism and success. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaTQqEXNd0k&feature=youtube_gdata_player like the precept in Wall e. tell me more disney about the meaningless and environmental harm of mass produced consumer garbage. http://repository.library.georgetown.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10822/558271/Yandel_georgetown_0076M_12295.pdf?sequence=1
