An unexpectedly interesting compare and contrast: Samuel Johnson & David Foster Wallace.

They go a little hard on Wallace for having committed suicide, but it is a Divinity school podcast after all so... not surprising and there is a valid insight there: Going easy on yourself means going easy on others, compassion is born of faith, hope and charity. How to makes such old platitudes fresh again though? Satire, for starters. See also: Sun Ra, Devo, The Residents.

Ministry of Ideas: Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me.
https://www.ministryofideas.org/enemy-of-morality

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