But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past

by Chuck Klosterman

it’s quite possible that no writer from this era will be remembered at all—yet if someone is embraced by the currently unborn, it will likely be a Kafka-like character. It will be someone we’re not currently aware of, which will allow this person to feel fresh to the generation that adopts him.

interesting thought

Up until the discovery of color blindness in the seventeenth century, it was assumed that everyone saw everything the same way (and it took another two hundred years before we realized how much person-to-person variation there

Mad Men cannot show us what life was like in the sixties. Mad Men can only show how life in the sixties came to be interpreted in the twenty-first century.

Thomas Jefferson’s genius did not keep him from capitalizing non-proper nouns.

We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we’ve learned is either wrong or irrelevant.