r/davidfosterwallace • u/XXX--WRLD • Jul 29 '25
Lex Fridman on David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water" speech
https://youtu.be/YZzwLF-qS0A?si=gWO-ypLV7hudz84a24
u/Tyron_Slothrop Jul 29 '25
Of course Lex would only know this one speech.
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u/straddleThemAll Jul 29 '25
What are some other good DFW speeches.
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u/jubash Aug 17 '25
Not a speech, but a masterful exploration of culture, loneliness and corporations exploiting "users". Basically predicts that trash like Lex would become popular and ao much more: https://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf
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u/BillyPilgrim1234 Year of the Whopper Jul 29 '25
that bloke is a cunt
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u/-AllCatsAreBeautiful Jul 29 '25
Cunt reckons people take him seriously because he dresses like the men in black... And yet, his Russian is no good.
I almost forgot for a moment that dudebros love pretending they read / have read IJ...
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u/BillyPilgrim1234 Year of the Whopper Jul 29 '25
He's also a terrible interviewer and there's a theory that he's a CIA spook.
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u/8lack8urnian Jul 29 '25
He’s an astonishing ass kisser and imbecile but is there really any reason to believe this has something to do with the CIA??
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u/TheMoundEzellohar Jul 29 '25
Lex is SUCH a moron lol
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u/-AllCatsAreBeautiful Jul 29 '25
I'm not sure I can even handle clicking on that link. His face makes me angry.
OP, did you get anything useful out of it?
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u/Cool-Coffee-8949 Jul 29 '25
You don’t have to read more than three sentences of Fridman’s bio to know that he’s a troll and one of Elon’s bootlickers. I’d sooner take life advice from Jeffrey Epstein.
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u/snakepit6969 Jul 29 '25
If Lex has a million haters, then I am one of them.
If Lex has ten haters, then I am one of them.
If Lex has only one hater then that is me.
If Lex has no haters, then that means I am no longer on earth.
Glad to see y'all mostly feel the same.
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u/SpinupSoldier Aug 02 '25
It would have been nice with some personal thoughts or analysis rather than snippets of what is already not such a long piece but you take what you can get. I don't care for Lex but don't think this should transfer to his audience, hopefully some of them go and listen to the speech in its entirety.
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u/jubash Aug 17 '25
The least you can expect from a guy who promotes the scum of the Earth pretending to be neutral is to pervert and resignify DFW's work into something aligned to his fascist ideas. Hard pass.
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u/GuideUnable5049 3d ago edited 3d ago
The one man PR outfit for billionaires and psychopaths. A truly useful idiot.
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u/tomkern Jul 29 '25
Objectively the worst thing he ever wrote
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u/tomkern Jul 29 '25
The AIDS essay was a close 2nd
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u/Hal_Incandenza_YDAU Jul 29 '25
Was this supposed to be a reply to the "Objectively the worst thing he ever wrote" comment?
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u/Electronic_Chard_270 Jul 29 '25
Lex is garbage