Like There's No Tomorrow
I just read Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man without a Country, in one sitting. This is saying something for me since I am a very slow reader. It helped that the book used a large font and extra line spacing. But none of this is the point of this blog post.
Vonnegut opened my eyes to something my heart already knew but was afraid to disseminate to the rest of my senses: Our country has an oil addiction that is raping the Earth and is being fed by psychologically unstable government officials who are self-serving, war-mongering billionaires.
Vonnegut writes:
Vonnegut calls Bush and his lackeys psychopathic personalities who are smart, personable people with no consciences.[2] I know several of these who hold key leadership positions in The United Methodist Church. They are running rampant, and unchecked, in every major sector of American society today, and they are the reason this country, and the world, are catapulting toward hell in a hand-basket.
PPs, as Vonnegut calls them, are decisive, and that is precisely why they have risen to power. “They are going to do something every fuckin’ day and they are not afraid. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they don’t give a fuck what happens next.”[3]
This book has so many pithy, clear examples of humanly contrived utopia, complete with the ‘ole “wool pulled over the eyes” trick. We’ve been sold a load of crap over the last 150 years to signal our own death within the next 150. And, we’ve been championed along the way by elected officials who could care less about us.
I agree with Vonnegut that “we have squandered our planet’s resources, including air and water, as though there were no tomorrow, so now there isn’t going to be one”.[4]
Vonnegut opened my eyes to something my heart already knew but was afraid to disseminate to the rest of my senses: Our country has an oil addiction that is raping the Earth and is being fed by psychologically unstable government officials who are self-serving, war-mongering billionaires.
Vonnegut writes:
“We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now
committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked
on.”[1]
Vonnegut calls Bush and his lackeys psychopathic personalities who are smart, personable people with no consciences.[2] I know several of these who hold key leadership positions in The United Methodist Church. They are running rampant, and unchecked, in every major sector of American society today, and they are the reason this country, and the world, are catapulting toward hell in a hand-basket.
PPs, as Vonnegut calls them, are decisive, and that is precisely why they have risen to power. “They are going to do something every fuckin’ day and they are not afraid. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they don’t give a fuck what happens next.”[3]
This book has so many pithy, clear examples of humanly contrived utopia, complete with the ‘ole “wool pulled over the eyes” trick. We’ve been sold a load of crap over the last 150 years to signal our own death within the next 150. And, we’ve been championed along the way by elected officials who could care less about us.
I agree with Vonnegut that “we have squandered our planet’s resources, including air and water, as though there were no tomorrow, so now there isn’t going to be one”.[4]
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[1] Vonnegut, Kurt. A Man without a Country. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005, p. 42.
[2] Ibid, p. 99.
[3] Ibid, p. 101.
[4] Ibid, pp. 44-45.
[1] Vonnegut, Kurt. A Man without a Country. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005, p. 42.
[2] Ibid, p. 99.
[3] Ibid, p. 101.
[4] Ibid, pp. 44-45.
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