{"id":9838,"date":"2015-07-07T10:13:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T14:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9838"},"modified":"2015-07-07T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T14:13:37","slug":"from-david-foster-wallace-the-pale-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/07\/from-david-foster-wallace-the-pale-king.html","title":{"rendered":"From David Foster Wallace, “The Pale King”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This remains largely theory, but my best guess as to [my dad\u2019s] never dispensing wisdom like other dads is that my father understood that advice \u2014 even wise advice \u2014 actually does nothing for the advisee, changes nothing inside, and can actually cause confusion when the advisee is made to feel the wide gap between the comparative simplicity of the advice and the totally muddled complication of his own situation and path. I\u2019m not putting this very well. If you begin to get the idea that other people can actually *live* by the clear, simple principles of good advice, it can make you feel even worse about your own inabilities. It can cause self-pity, which I think my father recognized as the great enemy of life and contributor to nihilism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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