But What If We're WrongBut What If We're Wrong
Thinking About the Present as If It Were the Past
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"We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. What once seemed reasonable becomes absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable--until they don't. But What If We're Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? Are all sports destined for extinction? Is it possible that we 'overrate' democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we've reached the end of knowledge? Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems, But What If We're Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt"--Container.
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- [New York] : Penguin Audio, [2016]
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