Very good address, pretty much echoing the points from DFW's excellent speech (https://www.fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/ https://www.fs.bl

Very good address, pretty much echoing the points from DFW's excellent speech (https://www.fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/ https://www.fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-wat...): "That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing." Granted, I live my 99% of my life in this despicable state that Wallace described so well, but for brief moments, when I can muster up the will choose what to think, it feels great. Actually, let me tell you exactly what it feels like: it's like that moment in Matrix Revolutions where Trinity pushes their ship above the clouds, and for one very brief moment, before returning to the ugliness, fight, and of course, her death, she gets to experience a gorgeous sun-lit scene. And, for giving me that understanding in such simple terms, I will always be grateful to DFW!