Kurt Vonnegut has a novel called Slapstick (Lonesome No More) where the president of the US figures that a lot of societal problems are due to the loss of the e

Kurt Vonnegut has a novel called Slapstick (Lonesome No More) where the president of the US figures that a lot of societal problems are due to the loss of the extended family. His solution is to assign everyone a new middle name. > 'Well,' I said, 'you might become Elmer Uranium-3 Grasso, say. Everybody with Uranium as a part of their middle name would be your cousin.' Sounds silly, but it just might work, and I could actually see the CPC going ahead with something like this. https://thesurrealist.co.uk/lonesome https://thesurrealist.co.uk/lonesome