But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
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But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
“What ages [poorly], it seems, are ideas that trend to the clever, the new, or the merely personal,” Saunders continues. “What gets dated, somehow, is that which is too ego inflected—that hasn’t been held up against the old wisdom, maybe, or just against some innate sense of truth,
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
The prevailing acceptance of nontraditional sexual identities.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
After each generation dies, only a few songs and artists enjoy a lingering fame.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
It will still be readable, but that reading experience won’t reflect the human experience it describes (because the experience of being human will be something totally different).
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
collectors are outliers who feel marginalized by society, and they were personally drawn to music that reflected those feelings.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
True naturalism can only be a product of the unconscious.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
the myth of universal timeliness.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
So while it’s absurd to think that all of history never really happened, it’s almost as absurd to think that everything we know about history is real.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
it’s not that the 1948 editors of Science Digest were illogical; it’s that logic doesn’t work particularly well when applied to the future.