#postmodernism

“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”

currently going down a rabbit hole of researching David Foster Wallace (his name came up in a developer's commentary I was listening to) and for one, I definitely need to read some of his short story collections or essays because despite what seems to be a massive back and forth in public opinion of this guy it seems like an interesting conversation either way. But for two,