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Why You Can’t Feel Anything Anymore
Imagine a world where every gesture of earnestness is met with a knowing smirk. Where vulnerability is a weakness to be exploited, and sincerity, a cringe-worthy relic of a bygone era. This isn’t a scene from a dystopian novel; it’s the cultural landscape David Foster Wallace so brilliantly diagnosed, a place where the pervasive, corrosive influence of “infinite irony” has dulled our capacity for genuine feeling, leaving us adrift in a sea of detachment.
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