Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll. Chuck Klosterman More Quotes by Chuck Klosterman More Quotes From Chuck Klosterman We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time. Chuck Klosterman assuming lying people I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack. Chuck Klosterman girl relationship I think one of the many interesting things about [Donald] Trump is that people in the media did not take him seriously for months. Then, when it was clear he was going to be the nominee, they immediately hit the panic button. I think they overlook the possibility that he could just be a really bad president in the way that presidents are traditionally bad. Chuck Klosterman media interesting thinking Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me? Chuck Klosterman I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me. Chuck Klosterman care stranger feels Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and a reactionary heart. And this is all I want from everything, all the time, always. Chuck Klosterman emotional heart football I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness. Chuck Klosterman lonely loneliness love-is It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally. Chuck Klosterman questionable important I am ready to be alone. Chuck Klosterman ready The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident. Chuck Klosterman different purpose mistake It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it. Chuck Klosterman matter knows can-do I am interested in the possibility that we are going to be wrong in the same way that history has indicated that mankind always is. It seems as though the history of ideas is the history of being wrong. And to me, that is a kind of continuum. It's a continual path that shows we don't always know something, but we're always shifting to a path that makes us feel more comfortable in the moment, even if that shift is wrong, and a new shift is destined to happen again. Chuck Klosterman moments kind path I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked back at the 20th and 21st centuries a thousand years from now, what their perception of the car would be. Or of television. I wonder if over time, they'll be seen as this thing that drove the culture, but ultimately had more downside than upside. Chuck Klosterman technology years thinking But no matter how many times we re-rank the presidents, in another 200 years, the top presidents will still be Washington and Lincoln and Jefferson, because they defined what a president is. They are the idea, and you can't be better than the idea. Chuck Klosterman president To me, fear of the future means fear of technology. I have a little bit of that. I still use it, but I kind of see technology as this harmful thing that's so ingrained in my life that it sort of dictates and controls my relationship with it. Chuck Klosterman technology use mean Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts - that to succeed in politics, you have to be a caricature of what a politician is supposed to be like. Chuck Klosterman succeed jobs way There are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently connected, and that the only driving force in anyone's life is entropy. The second is that everything pretty much stays the same (more or less) and that everything is completely connected, even if we don't realize it. Chuck Klosterman views two looks Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were in a previous existence. For example, infants who die from SIDs were actually great people when they were alive for real, so they get to go to heaven after a mere five weeks in purgatory. Meanwhile anyone Willard Scott ever congratulated for turning one hundred two was obviously a terrible individual who had many many previous sins to pay for and had to spend a century in his or her own unknown purgatory even though the person seemed perfectly wholesome in this particular world. Chuck Klosterman real reflection thinking The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least. Chuck Klosterman villain care persons I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil. Chuck Klosterman devil america people
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