“Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.”

American author and essayist

Chuck Klosterman is an American author and essayist known for writing about American popular culture, especially rock music and sports. He has been a columnist for Esquire and ESPN.com, and wrote The New York Times Magazine’s “The Ethicist” column. He is the author of 14 books, including two novels and the essay collection Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto. His work often focuses on music, sports, and the way popular culture shapes everyday life. He received the ASCAP Deems Taylor award for music criticism in 2002.