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But what if we're wrong? : thinking about the present as if it were the past

Klosterman, Chuck, 1972-2016

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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 theres 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. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable and secureuntil, of course, they dont. But What If Were Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who will conceive of 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? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of television? Are all sports destined for extinction? Is it possible that the greatest artist of our era is currently unknown (orweirder stillwidely known but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible we overrate democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that weve reached the end of knowledge? Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems,But What If Were Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers.