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David Foster Wallace - The Problem With Irony

One of my main books at the moment is Infinite Jest, and there are a plethora of videos to help me appreciate it more, and this video here sticks out, the point here makes a lot of sense, and the quote below was supplied by a YouTube comment that also hammers in the point, of a facet of the modern malaise is that there is such a saturation of cynicism and so on, that it makes me think again and anew on one of my hitherto favorite isms.

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“You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.”
- CS Lewis - The Abolition of Man

 
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