“…a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without having once loved something more than yourself”
~ David Foster Wallace
- Sex and loneliness (and how porn may, indeed, be more human than Hollywood after all).
- How masculinity is falling out of fashion.
- Critical culture wars over words (and how he who controls the dictionary controls the narrative; and he who controls the narrative controls the future).
This collection of essays that is almost as old as I am hits on so many of the major socio-cultural trend themes I’m focused on personally and professionally right now.
It is a great reminder that, as Voltaire said, “History never repeats itself. Man always does.”