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
So a smart person had a generalized, autodidactic, imperfect sense of history. And there was a circular logic to this: The importance of any given memory was validated by the fact that someone remembered it at all.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
But critics and music historians hate sentimental love songs, so these artists and songs struggle to get a place in the history books. Transgressive rockers, in contrast, enjoy lasting fame . . . right now, electronic dance music probably outsells hip-hop. In my opinion, this is identical to the punk-versus-disco trade-off of the 1970s. My predicti
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It engenders a delusion of simplicity that benefits people with inflexible minds. It
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
There is no intellectual room for the third rail, even if that rail is probably closer to what most people quietly assume: that this is happening, but we’re slightly overestimating—or dramatically underestimating—the real consequence.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
What makes us remember the things we remember?
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
He was the ultra-hedgehog, obsessed with only one truth: If people feel optimistic about where they live, details don’t matter.
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
what we’re socialized to believe about art is fundamentally questionable. Taste is subjective, but some subjective opinions are casually expressed the same way we articulate principles of math or science.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
the history of ideas tells us that there are many collections of current humans we do not currently humanize.