…this is why television also appeals so much to lonely people, to voluntary shut ins. Every lonely human I know watches way more than the average US six hours a day. The lonely, like the fictive, love one-way watching…lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people.
– David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.
…this is why television also appeals so much to lonely people, to voluntary shut ins. Every lonely human I know watches way more than the average US six hours a day. The lonely, like the fictive, love one-way watching…lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people.
– David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.
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