Chuck Klosterman IV A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
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Case in point: if this were 1904, you would not be reading this essay; you would be chopping wood or churning butter or watching one of your thirteen children perish from crib death. Your life would be horrible, but your life would have purpose. It would have clarity. Machines allow humans the privilege of existential anxiety. Machines provide us with the extra time to wrory about the status of our careers, and/or the context of our sexual relationships, and/or what it means to be alive. Unconsciously, we hate technology. We hate the way it replaces visceral experience with self-absorption. And the only way we can reconcile that hatred is by pretending machines hate us, too.
All the world's stupidest people are either zealots or atheists. If you want to truly deduce how intelligent someone is, just ask this person how they feel about any issue that doesn't have an answer; the more certainty they express, the less sense they have. This is because certainty only comes from dogma.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SEX, DRUGS, AND COCOA PUFFSCHUCK KLOSTERMAN IVCONSISTS OF THREE PARTS:THINGS THAT ARE TRUEProfiles and trend stories: Britney Spears, Radiohead, Billy Joel, Metallica, Val Kilmer, Bono, Wilco, the White Stripes, Steve Nash, Morrissey, Robert Plant -- all with new introductions and footnotes.THINGS THAT MIGHT BE TRUEOpinions and theories on everything from monogamy to pirates to robots to super people to guilt, and (of course) Advancement -- all with new hypothetical questions and footnotes.SOMETHING THAT ISN'T TRUE AT ALLThis is old fiction. There's a new introduction, but no footnotes. Well, there's a footnote in the introduction, but none in the story.
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- Pages: 432
- ISBN: 0743284895
- EAN: 9780743284899
- Dewey: 306
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Scribner