Niilismos

We all worship. We all have a religious impulse. We can choose, to an extent, what we worship, but the myth that we worship nothing and give ourselves away to nothing, simply sets us up to give ourselves away to something different. For instance, pleasure or drugs or the idea of having a lot of money and being able to buy nice stuff or the devotion to an athletic persuit that requires a certain amount of sacrifice and discipline.
[...] Whatever conditions of hopelessness you're talking about, at least in Infinite Jest, have to do with an idea that kids get exposed to very early that: "You are the most important", what "You" want is the most important and that "Your" job in life is to gratify "Your" own desires.
David Foster Wallace



Sobre o livro:

Set in the near future in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, a moving novel explores a world of drug abuse, heartbreak, advertising, philosophy, math, humor, and drama as it addresses what happens to a nation of people whose main concern is pleasing themselves.