Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")
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David Foster Wallace says he enjoys TV and that nothing bad about it applies to death. He thinks the big companies won't relinquish power over what was on television no matter how small transistors got. The shows we watch reinforce a sense of just pure fatalism and kind of nihilism, writes David Foster Wallace. "It's still kind of instills this fatalism in us but it makes us feel like well you know we're not the ones that are corrupt"
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