{"id":2289,"date":"2016-12-18T15:25:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T23:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2016-12-18T15:25:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T23:25:22","slug":"review-but-what-if-were-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2289","title":{"rendered":"Review: But What If We&#8217;re Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Chuck Klosterman, how I love your mind.\u00a0 I love watching a deep and brilliant analyst apply his considerable intelligence and skill to nigh pointless issues in popular culture.\u00a0 I spend way too much time doing this myself, and it&#8217;s delightful to bask in Klosterman&#8217;s pop culture nature walks.\u00a0 Better than that, I generally get a new insight from it.<\/p>\n<p>Klosterman&#8217;s organizing issue in <em>But What If We&#8217;re Wrong<\/em> is how much predicting the future successfully depends on absolutely invalidating a fundamental assumption or two.\u00a0 Researchers and pundits try to do this all the time, of course, but what sets Klosterman apart is how both how powerfully he buys into the premise and how he applies it to pop culture. He aggressively looks for fundamental bases to negate rather than surface distinctions to poke at. Serious futurists should take note.\u00a0 As should I.<\/p>\n<p>Then he points that basic principled analysis at rock music, for example.<\/p>\n<p>The result is good fun &#8211; for me and Klosterman, I suppose.\u00a0 He writes brilliantly and insightfully but there&#8217;s no risk of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2211\">AbyssGaze<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Strongly Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Chuck Klosterman, how I love your mind.\u00a0 I love watching a deep and brilliant analyst apply his considerable intelligence and skill to nigh pointless issues in popular culture.\u00a0 I spend way too much time doing this myself, and it&#8217;s delightful to bask in Klosterman&#8217;s pop culture nature walks.\u00a0 Better than that, I generally get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}