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

by Chuck Klosterman

The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true—both objectively and subjectively—is habitually provisional.

According to population expert Dr. Paul Ehrlich, we should currently be experiencing a dystopian dreamscape where “survivors envy the dead,” which seems true only when I look at Twitter.

Something that’s only metaphorically alive can never be literally dead.