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A review by geoffdgeorge
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman
Read this in intervals between novels. I like Klosterman. We might not always look at things using the same pop-cultural touchstones, but his patterns of thought resemble my own.
I also like the concept for this book. I think more people should think more often about the ways in which they (and we all) might be wrong. Doubt is a good thing! A healthy thing. And I feel like things wouldn't be half as bad as they are if so many people weren't walking around with blind certainty all the time and spewing that blind certainty out onto the internet for the rest of us to encounter—like finely misted spittle.
Point is, the book is likely to be a quick, enjoyable read for anybody who sits down and dedicates themselves to the task. Pick it up if you're interested in entertaining some of the ways that people hundreds or thousands of years from now might look back on us and see us as misguided, uninformed, or completely absurd.
I also like the concept for this book. I think more people should think more often about the ways in which they (and we all) might be wrong. Doubt is a good thing! A healthy thing. And I feel like things wouldn't be half as bad as they are if so many people weren't walking around with blind certainty all the time and spewing that blind certainty out onto the internet for the rest of us to encounter—like finely misted spittle.
Point is, the book is likely to be a quick, enjoyable read for anybody who sits down and dedicates themselves to the task. Pick it up if you're interested in entertaining some of the ways that people hundreds or thousands of years from now might look back on us and see us as misguided, uninformed, or completely absurd.