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thanks so much for reducing this emotional work of art to a political check box?
by mistrial9 4y ago
thanks so much for reducing this emotional work of art to a political check box?
- danso 4y agoSeems reductionist to think that Kurt Vonnegut was writing only/mostly from emotion, and that he didn't intend for it be political commentary/satire.
- golemotron 4y agoWe're talking about a guy who reduced all story telling to a set of 8 graphs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
- fullshark 4y agoI'm not sure I should like it until I learn what side of the current cultural/political war it's on.
- pjc50 4y agoVonnegut was a highly political writer, as SF writers often are. His most famous work is the extremely traumatized "Slaughterhouse 5", after all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five That doesn't mean it can or should be neatly mapped to the left/right distinction or culture wars of the current moment. Especially when people have so many bizarre ideas about what constitutes "left" or "socialism".
- tomrod 4y agoI admire KV. We must also recognize he lived, that he lived in a certain time, and that some of his writings deal with some of the events and attitudes that existed in a certain time.