David Foster Wallace – The Dangers Of Internet & Media Addiction
Decades ago, David Foster Wallace foresaw the problems that technology, media, and entertainment would cause for this generation. We now live in the internet/information age, where technology and media are inescapable. During Wallace’s later life, he pointed out the problems that we should consider and be aware of when existing in such a society. We may have not listened then, but we should now.
@aidanbrodieo
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
<3
@AotearoaChef
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Can you imagine what he would think of YouTube etc and AI. i grew up in the 90s and I find I watch way too much YouTube, way too easy and such a timesink…
@AmbientWalking
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Beautiful.
@martin_katten
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
It’s fascinating how David Foster Wallace’s ideas echo the Buddha’s insights into human nature as if they were pointing to the same truth from different worlds
@galez5018
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
It doesn't matter anymore to try, if you are willing to leave, you will find yourself alone, because everyone else is on their phones. You are lonely either way, we died long ago.
@paull9086
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
I think simulacra and simulation said it first and better than him.
@AlberHandcock
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Unabomer did it first
@JenHoegeman
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
His book just sounds like an updated version of “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman.
@maxmeeks9910
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
There are more books like, The American Exile Trilogy.
@riefersquirrel9000
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Powerful humans, (a member of an extremely interdependent/social species) having the ability to help their fellow man and instead isolating themselves and not helping their fellow man ( members of their species) and then falling into depression and other psychological/ spiritual pain . Werd who knows why that happens , it's such a mysterious question , truly a mystery of the ages.
@hpyht67
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Much respect to DFW, but Marshall McLuhan had him beat by a couple decades.
@earthgaugeblog
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
You said "are we destined to be consumed by consumption?" Um, ok. I can't quite visualize that. Anyway, the irony of an online video discussing how to fight internet/media addiction.
@smileymcgee6584
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
not much of dfw in the vid. i was expecting to learn a bit more tbh. how can someone claim that media is taking people away from the life they were "meant" to live (picking berries etc.) then take his own?
@a.mirabilis
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
29:35 about being bored and stimulated and being quiet
@olofhansson6985
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
you ju
@eric9328
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Imagine Wallace seeing reels or tiktoks
@eli7527
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
holy shit thank you
@paulwheeler6609
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
And Aldous Huxley before him. We deeply and dearly need a return to some rational version of the elder wisdom culture. There are no adults left in charge of the classroom.
@Joel-pj1kk
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Thanks, I needed this.
@RSEFX
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
THEse ARE THE EXACT, same discussions and concerns we were having in great detail staring in the mid-ish 60's. And still we confront these dug-in ways of thinking and behaving.
@DJDycus
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Is it just me… or does this video feel like the thing that DFW was condemning? It's a bit click-baity with a picture of him and 22-second snippet of his actual words. I came here think I would be hearing from Wallace, not 7+ minutes of summary with a collage of pictures and video.
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