This Is Water David Foster Wallace Analysis

The author, David Foster Wallace. He gave his only one speech so far in public, in which he talked about his view of life in the city. The speech happened in a commencement of Kenyon College in 2005. Now, the widely distributed video has been into a thin book, which name is “this is water”. At the beginning of the article, author talked a story about the fish, and he points out that “the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.” In our daily life, we tend to think that we are the absolute center of the natural, just like our default-setting. But most, we tend to automatically determine the thing, in fact, is completely wrong, even be fooled. Therefore in front
But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down. According to author's view, the only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re going to try to see it. This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing. The article also tell us that the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the