Thoughts on Wallace

The Wallace article starts off interesting enough, with a topic of swimming fish, which I imagined went down Finding-Nemo style. The next story about the Atheist and religious guy was also entertaining. The whole, “mind must be a slave and not the master” thing is an interesting idea, But, I’m not sure that the connection between suicide and the idea brought up earlier is valid; they shoot themselves in the head to die the quickest. The droning of a daily life and job did a good job of bringing out how people feel, I felt stressed just reading about it. The “speech” becomes very hipster, and liberal to the max, almost to a point where I can’t stand it, even though it is hypothetical. The reading starts to drag on, still asking me to consider other people when I’ve already been convinced they are terrible by the narrator. I like how the message is to consider other people and their situation, but the way the writer went about it to make us think about them didn’t work for me. And I especially don’t understand what this has to do with art besides it being about a liberal arts school.