Why couldn't we have heard that George Bush, Dick Cheney and other evil men like them, suddenly aware of their attrocious deeds, committed mass suicide, rather than a good human being and a great talent like David Foster Wallace? Suicide is not new but I try to grasp the idea of what our society values in human affairs and conclude that we are living in surreal military-idustrial-political times. The scum of the earth can amass riches and power without caring about the outcome of their actions and yet, for thinkers, it's the pain of their consciousness that often causes them to log out of this world for its seeming lack of meaning.
