Akira The Don, David Foster Wallace - The World As You Experience It lyrics

(Japanese dialogue from Naruto Shippuden
Between Naruto & Pain)

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 talk 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 were 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
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 somehow
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

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
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