HOME View All Genre

Book

Audiobook

GENRES 🌙 Dark

But What If We're Wrong? - Chuck Klosterman

By Chuck Klosterman

Release Date: 2016-06-07

Genre: Social Science

4 (160 ratings)
Read Download
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 (or—weirder still—widely known, but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we “overrate” democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we’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. 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—George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot DĂ­az, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others—interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. It’s a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. It’s about how we live now, once “now” has become “then.”

But What If We're Wrong? - Chuck Klosterman

By Chuck Klosterman

Release Date: 2016-06-07

Genre: Social Science

4 (160 ratings)
Read Download
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 (or—weirder still—widely known, but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we “overrate” democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we’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. 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—George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot DĂ­az, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others—interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. It’s a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. It’s about how we live now, once “now” has become “then.”

More by Chuck Klosterman

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

But What If We're Wrong?

I Wear the Black Hat

The Nineties

The Visible Man

Eating the Dinosaur

Killing Yourself to Live

Chuck Klosterman X

Chuck Klosterman IV

Football

Downtown Owl

Raised in Captivity

Fargo Rock City

The Led Zeppelin Essays

Porn

Football

Can I Keep My Jersey?

How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

The Billy Joel Essays

Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society

4,8,15,16,23,42

George Will vs. Nick Hornby

The American Radiohead

33: Celtics vs. Lakers

Chuck Klosterman on Rock

Viva Morrissey!

Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television

Certain Rock Bands You Probably Like

Being Zack Morris

Bending Spoons with Britney Spears

This Is Zodiac Speaking

Chuck Klosterman on Sports

Oh, the Guilt

Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture

This Is Emo

Monogamy

"The Best Response"

Tomorrow Rarely Knows

It Will Shock You How Much It Never Happened

FAIL

Something Wicked This Way Comes

What We Talk About When We Talk About Ralph Sampson

Ten Seconds to Love

The Awe-Inspiring Beauty of Tom Cruise's Shattered, Troll-like Face

Chuck Klosterman on Pop

Sulking with Lisa Loeb on the Ice Planet Hoth

Unbuttoning the Hardest Button to Button

ABBA 1, World 0

What Happens When People Stop Being Polite

All I Know Is What I Read in the Papers

Related Articles