Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.
David Foster Wallace
Kenyon College Commencement 2005, 2005
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In the most quoted passage of his Kenyon address, Wallace made a startling claim: that there is no such thing as atheism in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, because everyone worships something. The question is not whether to worship but what to worship — and the wrong choices are devastating. Worship money and things, and you will never have enough. Worship your body and beauty, and you will always feel ugly. Worship power, and you will end up feeling weak and afraid. Worship your intellect, and you will end up feeling like a fraud. Wallace argued that the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil but that they're unconscious — they are 'default settings' that you slip into gradually, day after day, without ever being fully aware of what you're doing.
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