The assumption that everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. (David Foster Wallace)

The assumption that everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

David Foster Wallace

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