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

Description: But What If We're Wrong? : Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past, Paperback by Klosterman, Chuck, ISBN 0399184139, ISBN-13 9780399184130, Brand New, Free shipping in the US “Full of intelligence and insights, as the author gleefully turns ideas upside down to better understand them. . . Replete with lots of nifty, whimsical footnotes, this clever, speculativ challenges our beliefs with jocularity and perspicacity.” —Kirkus (starred review)

“Klosterman’s trademark humor and unique curiosity propel the reader through th. He remains one of the most insightful critics of pop culture writing today and this is his most thought-provoking and memorabl yet.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The tremendously well-received New York Times bestseller by cultural critic Chuck Klosterman, exploring the possibility that our currently held beliefs and assumptions about the world will eventually be proven wrong—now in paperback.

But What If Were Wrong? is a book of original, reported, interconnected pieces, which speculate on the likelihood that many universally accepted, deeply ingrained cultural and scientific beliefs will someday seem absurd. Covering a spectrum of objective and subjective topics, th attempts to visualize present-day society the way it will be viewed in a distant future. Klosterman cites original interviews with a wide variety of thinkers and experts—including George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Alex Ross, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Dan Carlin, Nick Bostrom, and Richard Linklater. Klosterman asks straightforward questions that are profound in their simplicity, and the answers he explores and integrates with his own analysis generate the most thought-provoking and propulsiv of his career.

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