E Unibus Pluram Quotes

“The downside of TV's big fantasy is that it's just a fantasy. As a special treat, my escape from the limits of genuine experience is neato. As my steady diet, though, it can't help but render my own reality less attractive...render me less fit to make the most of it...and render me dependent on the device that affords escape from just what my escapism makes unpleasant.”
― David Foster Wallace, E Unibus Pluram

“And with Letterman, Miller, Shandling, and Leno’s battery of hip, sardonic, this-is-
just-TV schticks, the circle back to the days of “We’ve just got to get Miss Ball on our show, Bud” has closed and come spiral, television’s power to jettison connection and castrate protest fueled by the very ironic
postmodern self-consciousness it had first helped fashion.”
― David Foster Wallace, E Unibus Pluram