good thing about David Foster Wallace (and all good literature) is that it is able to express in words something that you sensed but could not stop to make.
"It is curious that the arts in this State United ancient treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as something that is fashionable. Perhaps the case of vestiges of the romantic glorification of Weltschmerz, which means world-weariness or boredom contemporary. Perhaps this is due to the fact that here the arts are produced by people tired of the world's most refined, and consumed by younger people who not only consume, but studies in search of clues to go with the times which involves being accepted, admired or included and, therefore, not be alone. Forget the so-called peer pressure. It's more like peer hunger. Or not? We enter a spiritual puberty where we discover that the great transcendent horror is loneliness, caging in the self. Once we reach that age, give or receive anything and use any mask to fit, not to be alone, we, the youth. The American arts are our guide to inclusion. A Practical Guide. We are taught to fabricating masks of ennui and irony tired at an age when the face is ductile enough to take the form of what you wear. And then there is the weary cynicism that saves us from gooey sentimentality and naivete is not refined. On this continent, a sentiment equals naivete. "
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