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20502571 No.20502571 [Reply] [Original]

I don't get it. What he says isn't really *that* profound.

>> No.20502574

Cope and seethe. DFW was based. Without him, there would be no Jordan Peterson.

>> No.20502576

>>20502571
What does he say?

>> No.20502590

>>20502576
This is water lol

>> No.20502884

I don't think much of anything is profound. Sometimes things I read make me smarter, make me laugh, and make me bored.

>> No.20503009

>>20502571
He was sincere in a world drenched with self-distancing irony. Don't talk shit about my boy DFW

>> No.20503032

Everything about this man disgusts me. I've never read him, but judging by pics alone...

>> No.20503034

>>20503009
>He was sincere
He wasn't

>> No.20503037

its true though, thats all that matters

>> No.20503288

>>20503009
>sincere
He was an arrogant asshole hiding behind fake nice guy persona.

>> No.20503310

>>20502571
That’s the point.

>> No.20503366

>>20502571
Most people aren't that profound. The thinkers who really catch on are the ones who express not very profound things in a not quite profound way.

>> No.20503457

>>20502571
In the future he won't be remembered but no one will read books anymore so

>> No.20503502

>>20502571
The opioid crisis in America? Your average Joe has problems with phone addiction (doom scrolling.) Drugs are now a staple of our culture.

The new sincere stuff is rubbish; irony is the apex of cognition in art and comedy, but his deductions, sourced from his observations of himself and others, have only become more apparently correct as time passes. If you can find "nothing" profound in his voluminous texts I would question you linguistic IQ, and recommend you find a hobby more fitting.

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20504458

>>20502571
that's the jest

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20504472

>>20503502
>it's smart cuz it's big

>> No.20504478

Pseuds interpret needlessly long pauses as profundity

>> No.20504487

>>20504478
...
yes

>> No.20504596

And so but

>> No.20504608

>>20502571
He is more insightful than most people. I've never even read anything of his but the interview was pleasant to listen to.

>> No.20506262

bump

>> No.20507722

>>20504472
anon never once mentioned size, rather the way words are used. cope.

>> No.20507728

>>20502574
Holy shit...I take it all back.

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20507738

I read his biography and was shocked at how much of a coomer he was. Wrote about porn and hip hop like some trashy journalist and ultimately used his smarts and semi-fame as a means for sex. I think he wanted to be "genuine" but had too much emotional baggage and ultimately couldn't overcome his own addiction to pleasure

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>>20507722
sounds like somebody needs to go back to reading school

>> No.20507846

>>20502574
>OP timidly expresses the most mild of opinions
>COPE AND SEETHE AND DILATE HE'S BASEDERINO YWNBAW
ok