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Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television, this essay is about television advertising.
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Popular CultureQ: Is there any widespread practice more futile than attempting to predict societyâs future relationship with technology?
CHAOS
Letâs pretend we could end world hunger with drugs.
Letâs pretend someone invented a single, inexpensive pill that would make eating unnecessary forever. You swallow this pill once, and youâre never hungry again; youâd always remain your ideal weight, and youâd always be in perfect health. And letâs assume this pill could be manufactured anywhere (and by anyone), and it would be impossible to regulate or control. Nobody would ever again starve to death in Africa; nobody would ever need to spend money on groceries or slaughter livestock. All the problems that come with the acquisition and consumption of food would disappear.
This, it can be safely argued, would be positive for mankind.
But letâs add one caveat to this hypothetical: letâs say all this happened suddenly. Letâs say the worldwide distribution of this pill happened in the span of six weeks. For the next ten years, the world would be insane. Millions of farmers would be instantly unemployed. Anybody who makes a living by selling, moving, or preparing food would be obsolete. With no need for farmland, the real estate market would be completely reinvented overnight. Without the structure of meals, day-today activities would be drastically different, and it would take decades for this to normalize. In the long run, this evolution would be good for societyâbut society would not be prepa...
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Chaos
- More by Chuck Klosterman