Chuck Klosterman, "Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past"
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New York Times\\xa0bestselling 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\\u2014weirder still\\u2014widely known, but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we \\u201coverrate\\u201d democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we\\u2019ve reached the end of knowledge?
Klosterman visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who\'ll perceive it as the distant past.\\xa0Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems,\\xa0But What If We\\u2019re Wrong?\\xa0is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers\\u2014George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot D\\xedaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others\\u2014interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. It\\u2019s a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. It\\u2019s about how we live now, once \\u201cnow\\u201d has become \\u201cthen.\\u201d
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