This is Water - David Foster Wallace

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address could have been: "free the slaves. we're all equal. Good fighting guys. Thank you and be well."

Winston Churchill could have just gone on the radio and said, "It's tough, so we'll just keep on keepin on."

Here's what I think we're dealing with here. You made a resoundingly dumb and ignorant comment. And now you find yourself forced to defend it. You're dug in and forcing yourself to believe this wayward son of a thought.

With all we know about mental illness, it's astonishing you think we shouldn't listen to the wisdom of someone that killed themselves. Surely you can see how ridiculous that take is. It is absurd and you should seriously walk that one back.

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