An excerpt from Jordan B. Peterson's 1996 Maps of Meaning lectures from Harvard University, where he comments on David Foster Wallace's "Shipping Out", also found in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. Peterson is commenting on what he calls the unbearable present.

David Foster Wallace WORSHIP ► Commencement Speech Clip (This is Water audio)
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1984 vs Brave New World ► Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death [Orwell & Huxley] 🚩 David Foster Wallace appearance at 3:22
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Donald Hoffman's Fitness-Beats-Truth Theorem Explained 🚩 Jordan Peterson appearance at 13:15
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🚾 Works Cited
The full lecture with a timestamp for this reference:
   • Maps of Meaning 02 (Harvard Lectures)  

Shipping Out (1996) was published in Harper's magazine and later republished in "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" (1997).
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🚩 Nerd Alert
Wallace reported 11 gourmet eating-ops per day.

"Since finally finding out about it Monday, I've ended up availing myself of cabin service every night-more like twice a night, to be honest-even though I find it extremely embarrassing to be calling up x72 asking to have even more rich food brought to me when there have already been eleven gourmet eating-ops that day." (p.45)

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