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Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

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Chuck Klosterman
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 5
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Journalist
Music Critic
Breckenridge
Minnesota
Charles John Klosterman
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The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it the only people who insist the Internet is wonderful are those who need it to give their life meaning.
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If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Oh sure, it seems obvious now, but you'd be amazed at how many people don't think of it when it's relevant. Seriously, punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.
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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.
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I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.
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It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.
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Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.
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If Donald Trump loses badly, it could mean the end of the GOP as one of the two significant parties.
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Technology evolves faster than people do, faster than biology does.
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I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer than me is brilliant. So of course that makes me a horrible critic when it comes to books, because I can't distance my own experience from what I'm doing.
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It's possible for me to imagine a generation of people maybe two generations removed from you who might decide that we have an adversarial relationship with technology.
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I am of the opinion, and have been for a long time, that any kind of big technological move is almost always positive in the short term but inevitably somewhat negative in the long term. And I think there are many examples of this in every possible context.
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Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.
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If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.
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We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.
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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.
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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.
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Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.
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The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.
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Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable impracticality almost seems cool.
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What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of protest against the constructions of mainstream society. My motivation was far more philosophical. I wanted to rock.
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