David Foster Wallace Quote of Nuclear Power and TV

"Nuclear weapon and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the status."

-David Foster Wallace

Nuclear weapons and TV were introduced in the 20th century and that marked a huge turn of events that affected everyone and changed the future of the Earth, particularly for the worse. We always had weapons that were invented with the intent of killing one another, but the nuclear arm upped the status, just like David Foster Wallace mentioned, our tendency as humans to wage wars in face of any conflict. The power of nuclear weapons became evident when the U.S. used it to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a terrible display of human anger to which Japan still suffers the aftershock from.

TV works in the same fashion in a sense that it can make or break a person. With it, we can see celebrities showing the human tendency of power and desperation.

-Tenzin