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There was a five-year window there he could've written a 5,000+ word achingly personal dissertation on how a completely anonymous forum inherently invites damage to human dignity or some such. Why not?

>> No.16240702

>>16240663
Internet would have become the same as TV for him, something he could not have in his home because it would be all he would do.

>> No.16240721
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16240721

>>16240702
yeh he wouldve been an addict
every other day hed have made a thread about how he hates this place but he cant seem to leave

>> No.16240851

>>16240721
He probably would just have gotten rid of the internet once it became an issue, just like he did with TV.

>> No.16240875

>>16240721
Did dfw reincarnate as London frog

>> No.16241853

that wouldve been really gay and dumb, even for DFW

>> No.16242091

>>16240702
But did he ever say this? In any case it would be a huge disappointment for him to lack interest in the internet when it's essentially a bigger and stronger version of TV, though he was correct in the sense TV was a total paradigm shift whereas the internet is just evolving from there.

>> No.16242098

>>16240663
I don't know, I feel like he would appreciate how anonymity levels the playing field and allows for sincere expression. But the weirder aspects of 4chan might put him off. Unfortunately, I could see DFW being more of a Redditor than a channer.

>> No.16243257

>>16242091
He said that he does not own a TV because he has no self control with such things, internet would be no different. I think he talks about in the OP pic interview if memory serves, but it comes up in a few interviews.

I have a vague memory that he did not own a computer?

>> No.16243271

We would have made him cry

>> No.16243284
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16243284

>>16240663
He predicted Zoom sociology

>> No.16243293

>>16243284
why u do dis

>> No.16243384
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16243384

>we never got blue checked old man wallace
imagine the ratios

>> No.16243395

>>16243284
stop posting this thot

>> No.16243656

>>16243384
this is a cursed post

what the fuck is a ratio
what is a blue tick
i'm going to kill ym wife and chilren