Shaun Scott

“I never feel weird about being the main character in the nontransferable, nonexistent movie of my life. That’s totally fine. What makes me nervous is a growing suspicion that this movie is fucked up and devoid of meaning. The auteur is a nihilist.”
― Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains

“Nowhere was the complacency of the establishment, with its blind faith in progress, more evident than in its attitude toward an elite degree: as long as my child goes to the right schools, upward mobility will continue. A university education had become the equivalent of a very expensive insurance policy, like owning a gun.”
― George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

“In any situation, the villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.”
― Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains

“There is something at stake any time we cross from one circle to another, a simultaneous relinquishing and hardening of the self.”
― John Leland, Hip: The History