Scott Brown:
CLASS OF 1978
Catalina High SchoolClass of 1978
Tucson, AZ
Paradise Valley High SchoolClass of 1978
Phoenix, AZ
Scott's Story
Scott is from Tucson, Arizona. Scott's schools include Catalina High School.
Music Scott likes includes Face Down, I like it all! Especially the 80's & 90's. Movies Scott likes include Official Grease Movie, The Quiet Man, Get Him to the Greek. TV shows Scott likes include ESPN, The History and Discovery Channels.
One of Scott's favorite quotes is:"Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe; the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely think about this sort of natural, basic self-centeredness because it's so socially repulsive. But it's pretty much the same for all of us. It is our default setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth. Think about it: there is no experience you have had that you are not the absolute center of. The world as you experience it is there in front of YOU or behind YOU, to the left or right of YOU, on YOUR TV or YOUR monitor. And so on. Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you someho...Expand for more
w, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real.
Please don't worry that I'm getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other-directedness or all the so-called virtues. This is not a matter of virtue. It's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self. People who can adjust their natural default setting this way are often described as being "well-adjusted", which I suggest to you is not an accidental term.
Given the triumphant academic setting here, an obvious question is how much of this work of adjusting our default setting involves actual knowledge or intellect. This question gets very tricky. Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education -- least in my own case -- is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract argument inside my head, instead of simply paying attention to what is going on right in front of me, paying attention to what is going on inside me. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE".
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