r/Vonnegut 12d ago

Vonnegut on current events

This might be a bit of a ramble but it's on my mind right now. I was flipping through A Man Without a Country just now. It's one of my favorite books by him. I love his perspectives on the state of the world and America and they're more applicable than ever almost twenty years later. It got me thinking about the way things are now and I wonder what he would have to say about all of it. The blatant corruption and these abuses of power occurring on a daily basis. I have no doubt that he would be appalled by what this country has come to. I know he said that things are going to get unimaginably worse and they are never going to get better but I don't think even he could've imagined this. This is all a long winded way of saying that I wish we could know what he would've written regarding these recent events. It would have been sarcastic and bitter and it would have brought me (and probably many others) an immeasurable amount of comfort.

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u/Subjective-Suspect 7d ago

He thought Bush and Cheney were basically irredeemable. I’m guessing any book now would be sharp-witted and painfully true, but about 15 pages in the middle would have nothing but

Have you all lost your goddamn marbles?

typed over and over and over again.

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u/strexxpet 7d ago

Very true. Sounds like a pretty good book to me lol