Share 'David Foster Wallace on Attention and Compassion'

I've just finished reading, for perhaps the fifth time, DFW's 2005 Commencement Address at Kenyon College (also recently published as This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life). It is brief, so please just go read it. I do not have the sense that he was Buddhist, but it is a direct and powerful statement about freedom, attention, and com…