Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.
That is so true, holy shit.
That's a good point. On the other hand, John Henry and Johnny Appleseed and etc. could be seen as stories about poor or working people being good for their "industriousness" rather than for being wise and virtuous. Brer Rabbit and Casey Jones are definitely good counterpoints though.
I tried to read the book on high school but I was very dumb and didn't understand it at all so I thought it was bad. I thought the time travel and aliens and stuff were real. Maybe I should try it again now that I'm slightly less of a dum dum.
Go read Slaughterhouse Five and then read Cat's Cradle after. Vonnegut was terrific
It's funny I'm currently going back through and watching movies I loved as a kid that I haven't seen since becoming a communist and holy shit did I miss a lot of things. Mostly the opposite of this though since they're all 80s flicks so the anti-communist rhetoric is thick to the gills
I've been wanting to read Vonnegut seriously for years now. Yet never sat down and started.
The best I've been able to do was listed to the Kurt Vonneguys Podcast that went and did an episode about every one of his books (I think?).
The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor,
Boy, this didn't age well. I hope someone got fired for that blunder!
Thats the thing though, most of the hoggish petite bourgeoisie are poor; well much closer to being one of us proles than they are to Bezos. This is why giving houses and small business loans is the favorite move of social fascists, it changes people's material conditions to make them into ideological foot soldiers of reaction.
