Yeah it reminds me of the CIA funding Jackson Pollock and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Vonnegut probably intended more shades of meaning, but it is instead a ha

Yeah it reminds me of the CIA funding Jackson Pollock and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Vonnegut probably intended more shades of meaning, but it is instead a ham-fisted manifesto for liberals (in the more original, globally center-right sense) like Scott Aaronson whose entire worldview is rooted in loving accelerated schooling.