But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It

But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

New York Times bestselling author 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 (orâ€”weirder stillâ€”widely known, but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we â€œoverrateâ€ democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that weâ€™ve reached the end of knowledge?

Klosterman visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past.Â Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems, But What If Weâ€™re Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkersâ€”George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot DÃaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among othersâ€”interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. Itâ€™s a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. Itâ€™s about how we live now, once â€œnowâ€ has become â€œthen.â€
Country USA
Brand Penguin Press
Manufacturer Penguin Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 25083259
Model 25083259
ReleaseDate 2016-06-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780399184123

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin Press
Manufacturer	Penguin Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	25083259
Model	25083259
ReleaseDate	2016-06-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780399184123

But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

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