The Impossibility of Knowing Who You Are

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I associate with David Foster Wallace the real person the author for just being like a good person that can connect with other people in a very minimal way. That doesn't expect too much out of that and that just appreciates the beauty of life but find so many obstacles in the way between him and the appreciation of it yeah It's interesting because in his um it like I think that the the meta point that we cannot ever know another person is one clear clear point the other the other point is that in his shitty attempt at knowing who Neil was that takes the blink of an eye he then outlines like this total he's trying really hard to describe an internal struggle which might be right in that last sentence

Our whole lives we’ve been frauds. We’re not exaggerating. Pretty much all we’ve ever done is try to create a certain impression of us in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. This episode is a perfect example, Tamler pretending to be a cinephile (check out his four favorite pieces of 2019 “pop culture” in the first segment), David trying to connect with the people (Baby Yoda, Keanu Reeves etc.) – and of course what could be more fraudulent than a deep dive into a David Foster Wallace story, rhapsodizing over the endless sentences, the logical paradoxes, the seven-layer bean-dip of metacommentary (Jesus Christ I’m surprised there aren’t like eight footnotes in this episode description), and meanwhile the Partially Examined Life dudes refresh their overcast feeds and wonder through the tiny keyhole of themselves how David and Tamler have sunk so low that they’d ramble on about “Good Old Neon” like a couple of first year Comp-Lit grad students trying to impress that girl who works at the Cajun bakery.