Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

by Chuck Klosterman

The drive to Santa Fe on I-25 is mildly Zen: there are public road signs that say “Gusty Winds May Exist.” This seems more like lazy philosophy than travel advice.

I hate the idea that artists suffer more than anyone else. They’re just in a different position.”

Now, my assumption is that Bonds probably doesn’t care about any of this, and I’m not necessarily certain that he should. But the rest of society is left with a curious quandary: How do we reconcile a massive, momentous achievement that is neither wholly real nor socially good?

Olympics are designed for people who want to care about something without considering why.

As I grow older, I find myself less prone to have an opinion about anything, and to distrust just about everyone who does. Whenever

This is why choosing to position himself as un-great on purpose helped a man win the presidential election in 2000 and 2004. And this is why Survivor still has a place in society: it validates the practice of getting to the top by dragging everyone else to the middle.