the ethics of david foster wallace

“This is a generation that has an inheritance of absolutely nothing as far as meaningful moral values, and it’s our job to make them up.”

-David Foster Wallace, 1993 Whisky Island interview

oh woman, oh woman, why?

"...perhaps the most damning characteristic of women is that, in the face of horrifying evidence of their situation, they stubbornly claim that, in spite of everything, [they] 'love' [their] Oppressor."

-Ti-Grace Atkinson, Amazon Odyssey, p. 105

This is quoted in Hanne Blank's Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, which is a great read I highly suggest you take the time to read.

a footstep forward...

The Aymara Peoples of Peru, Bolivia and Chile have a unique manifestation of time. Where most European derivative time perception sees the flow of time as both forward and right-directed, the Aymara feel past as being directionally forward (nayra, which also means eye, front and sight). Backward then would represent the future (qhipa), something yet to be seen? This, of course, has not been passed down to the next generation (Nuñéz and Sweester 2006); something Steven Pinker probably could not account for with his rigid genetic determinism (Pinker 1994). It seems that temporal hegemony is not only limited to the rhythms and schedules of post-industrial socities (Bluedorn 2009), but also the temporal embodiment of acculturated indigenous of South America.