I had that experience with David Foster Wallace and his commencement address. The first half was exciting intellectually and by the last half I realized it was a cry for help
How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone.
As far as I know he did his best to find an alternative to the antidepressants that he couldn’t take any longer due to allergies and tried different therapies with no avail.
This seems to me it was a condition less linked to environmental stress-inducing factors and more of an internal condition.
I had that experience with David Foster Wallace and his commencement address. The first half was exciting intellectually and by the last half I realized it was a cry for help
How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone.
:(
With another ten years of hindsight, it’s pretty apparent
As far as I know he did his best to find an alternative to the antidepressants that he couldn’t take any longer due to allergies and tried different therapies with no avail.
This seems to me it was a condition less linked to environmental stress-inducing factors and more of an internal condition.