Kurt Vonnegut’s Last Interview

“Anyway, when I was young, I noticed these contradictions and, of course, they were quite acceptable to a lot of people, but not to me.”

I guess that is why he became unstuck in time, to fix it up. Too bad (for us) that he was not able. Seriously, humans are obviously imperfect creatures. And when you put us in groups, our imperfections multiply. To expect perfection is simply foolish. But it is fun to kibitz about how bad things were/are etc.

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Posted by wolf on May 9, 2007 at 2:00 PM

“Trust but verify?”  St. Ronnie lives!  I don’t think the relationship between two super powers facing each other in the grip of mutually assured destruction is quite comparable with the individual citizen and the overwhelming power of the state, but whatever. 

Give me the necessary transparency, openness and freedom from secrecy to actually verify and a certain willingness to acknowledge, apologize for and ameliorate past wrongs and I may be willing to extend a modicum of trust.

Otherwise, nice of you to admit our imperialist, mercantilist corporate system is squandering the resources of the planet at the expense of our progeny, Wolfgang.

Don’t you think it would be better if we, each of us individually and all of us consensually, made efforts to get our spiritual, social and material houses in order in the here and now, than to leave it up to future generations?

Posted by luminous beauty on May 13, 2007 at 9:50 AM

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Posted by wolf on May 15, 2007 at 2:14 PM

Some democracy indeed. a great man that will be sorely missed by all.

Posted by MediaFriend on May 17, 2007 at 11:54 PM