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Recommended read by David Foster Wallace: https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf https://harpers.org/wp-content/uplo

Recommended read by David Foster Wallace: https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazi.... Read if you'd never like to step foot on a cruise again.

narrator 4y ago
David Foster Wallace was very funny, but saw the disappointing and sad nature of just about everything. He's sort of the pinnacle of depression literature before widespread anti-depressant use.
- AlecSchueler 4y ago
  Maybe we should listen to the people who warned us about certain aspects of society that could have potentially led to the need for widespread anti-depressant use.
JKCalhoun 4y ago
Look at a cruise ship as akin to a floating, polluting, germ-infested mall and I think you'll never have any desire to step foot on one.
- ryandrake 4y ago
  I look at it like a germ-infested McDonalds ball pit for adults. I felt pretty uncomfortable on a cruise ship even before COVID. Now, I would break out in a sweat just looking at one.
  - zamnos 4y ago
    Not that Covid is anything to be dismissed, but I'd be way more afraid of Norovirus. Critically, Covid doesn't last long on surfaces, so the chances of touching a contaminate surface and getting infected from that is small. Meanwhile Norovirus can last for up to 4 weeks on a surface and leads to vomiting and diarrhea, which sounds extremely not-fun in a small confined space, with a limited number of bathrooms.
    - bathtub365 4y ago
      Nowhere has an unlimited number of bathrooms.
      - zamnos 4y ago
        I don't know about you, but I don't use more than one bathroom at a time. Thus if number of bathrooms >= people, I wouldn't call them unlimited, but given an extremely contagious disease that causes vomiting and diarrhea, that sounds a lot better than having to share 1 bathroom with multiple people!
jquery 4y ago
He also gave one of the best commencement speeches ever: https://youtu.be/OsAd4HGJS4o https://youtu.be/OsAd4HGJS4o

narrator 4y ago

David Foster Wallace was very funny, but saw the disappointing and sad nature of just about everything. He's sort of the pinnacle of depression literature before widespread anti-depressant use.

AlecSchueler 4y ago
Maybe we should listen to the people who warned us about certain aspects of society that could have potentially led to the need for widespread anti-depressant use.

JKCalhoun 4y ago

Look at a cruise ship as akin to a floating, polluting, germ-infested mall and I think you'll never have any desire to step foot on one.

ryandrake 4y ago
I look at it like a germ-infested McDonalds ball pit for adults. I felt pretty uncomfortable on a cruise ship even before COVID. Now, I would break out in a sweat just looking at one.
- zamnos 4y ago
  Not that Covid is anything to be dismissed, but I'd be way more afraid of Norovirus. Critically, Covid doesn't last long on surfaces, so the chances of touching a contaminate surface and getting infected from that is small. Meanwhile Norovirus can last for up to 4 weeks on a surface and leads to vomiting and diarrhea, which sounds extremely not-fun in a small confined space, with a limited number of bathrooms.
  - bathtub365 4y ago
    Nowhere has an unlimited number of bathrooms.
    - zamnos 4y ago
      I don't know about you, but I don't use more than one bathroom at a time. Thus if number of bathrooms >= people, I wouldn't call them unlimited, but given an extremely contagious disease that causes vomiting and diarrhea, that sounds a lot better than having to share 1 bathroom with multiple people!

jquery 4y ago

He also gave one of the best commencement speeches ever: https://youtu.be/OsAd4HGJS4o https://youtu.be/OsAd4HGJS4o