Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@ [Hodgepodge o' liberalism alert]

In these times ^ | 1/27/03 | Joel Bleifuss

[rogue yam]

"Trout Fishing in America" was written by Richard Brautigan.

[DoctorMichael]

Two Lefties Talking:

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[vikingchick]

ROFL!! That was classic.

[SandfleaCSC]

They should have asked Kilgore Trout what he thought about the upcoming war.

[DoctorMichael]

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[yooper]

The proper response to Vonnegut is the one Rodney Dangerfield gave him in "Back to School."

[ChuxsterS]

LOL.

That's brilliant. You cut right to the heart of what they're saying.

[Tom D.]

If Neville Chamberlin fought in WWI he probably said the same thing right before he declared "Pease in Our Time".

[monkey]

“As long as there is a lower class, I am in it.”

Except for the money part, of course.

[gg188]

"the Reagan wars"

What is that??

[Mortimer Snavely]

Vonnegut, I guess, is an FDR Democrat who still thinks that the Demorats of today are the ideological heirs of the Democrats of his salad days.

[Mortimer Snavely]

Philip Roth's Our Gang, perhaps? Still ROTFL, though.

[weikel]

Vonnegut wrote this? Hmmm I always liked him before his satire seemed rather libertarian in nature... sigh.

[weikel]

Yeah until now I always thought Vonnegut was a real conservative... Harrison Bergeron is such a good skewering of leftist egalitarianism.

[weikel]

I know it doesn't make sense( perhaps he is one of the ultra rare non commie peaceniks... but works such as Mother Night etc would suggest against that).

[driftless]

He calls himself a pacifist, but states that WWII was a just war. He doesn't sound like he was a pacifist then. And I wonder what saintly Kurt thought of the commies who murdered hundreds of thousands of their own citizens after the Vietnam War. Apparently he also thinks that Republicans are cave-dwelling troglogytes who haven't yet mastered elementary drooling. This is of course the view that most liberals have of conservatives. I've read a number of Vonnegut's books also, and he reinforces my view of liberals as people who are experts in the world of unreality.

[Crossbow Eel]

“C students from Harvard.”

Replace everything with Gore and you get the same.

This guy is pissed at the world and no matter what he will be pissed until he's dead!

[laredo44]

If only liberals could make that much sense.

[BraveMan]

Sigh . . . I guess I just ain't got no culture . . .

I've read "Slaughterhouse Five". I've seen three different renditions of "Our Town". I've read "Welcome to the Monkeyhouse" twice. Try as I might, I just cannot grasp why Kurt Vonnegut is so highly regarded as an author and a playwright. What others refer to as "avant-guarde" I can only view as insulting and puerile.

Perhaps it's my position in society as a 'not-so-closeted white supremacist, aka “Christian,”' that prevents me from recognizing the true genius of Vonnegut. My loss . . .