David Foster Wallace Zdf Interview.txt

From Foster Wallace ZDF Interview: There is a lot of narcisim in self hatred ... And the shift from "I want somehting" to "I need something" is a big one. What is this "to be entertained"? There is always the promise of that "something better" just around the corner; and with the click you do not even have to make a physial effort ... it is all just there ... waiting to be explored ... what it asks is only the best you have: your attention. A model of a world where I have the right to be entertained all the time doesn't seem to ne a very promising one. Watching caracteres on the flat screen is so much more easy than putting yourself in their skin. When I read someting good I am ready to jump over the wall and feel that "someone else" in a way that I can't in regular life. And when I do inhabit this other person, their feeling, their saying there is a tremendous reassurance comunion and empathy and then it's getting more complex because I'm getting access to the mind of the author. It feels a kind of lonley but then: watching tv is a way much lonier, even if it seems easy; but it is very different to be in someone elses skin ... "Comfort to disturb and disturb the comfortable" There is something comfortable about inhabiting someone else but there is also something very uncomfortable ... There are forms of art that offer us escapes from ourselves and our daliy lifes and there are form of art that are more confrontational (and it takes skill and education to derive pleasure from it) Fragmentation of the entertaimnent industry: get nichy: if not: put your intrest value very very low