This is Water - Part 2

A speech given by David Foster Wallace (R.I.P.) at the 2005 Kenyon College commencement ceremony.

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[blahguylol]

It's always depressing to listen to the audience laugh at all the wrong places for all the wrong reasons. They were too dumb to digest the 101 of what David was trying conve...fuck I think I just did the exact same thing with this post, didn't I?

[CantEatBabies]

Yeah, kinda.

[Duke Mabirou]

Only a little.

[harderwijk11]

the mind is the problem, yet it is also the key to unlocking... believing something can make it real, disbelieving something can make it vanish(please not the litteral way, dont try to make things vanish in this air)

its like the placebo effect...

[shroomzebra]

It's depressing if you think that there is no way for you to change yourself out of the default setting

[Rjoette Squire]

He has such an incredible grasp of what is

[DrunkenMasshole]

Nice. I see your point. I just can't believe you made it.

[DrunkenMasshole]

If people laughing at a graduation ceremony (yes you should consider the difference in context in which you and them heard this) bothers you...

[HogsHeadStudios]

I think you missed the point. He isn't singling out a minority. He's singling out dogmatism in general. "But religious dogmatists' problem is exactly the same as the story's unbeliever: blind certainty..." The religious aspect of it was just a vessel to convey his point on blind certainty and dogmatism.

[James Ayers]

I hear what you're saying, but I think he recovers too fast for it to be true emotion. He probably just needs some water.

[Earnest Hansley]

6:02 Did it seem to anyone else that his voice wavered a bit here?

[izzygraze]

God this is depressing.