Even some who lived that era felt the same way. This is from much later in his life, but he lived the 50s and 60s:
"Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are.
We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet—the only one in
the whole Milky Way—with a century of transportation whoopee. Our
government is conducting a war against drugs, is it? Let them go after
petroleum. Talk about a destructive high! You put some of this stuff in your car
and you can go a hundred miles an hour, run over the neighbor’s dog, and tear
the atmosphere to smithereens. Hey, as long as we are stuck with being homo
sapiens, why not mess around? Let’s wreck the whole joint. Anybody got an atomic
bomb? Who doesn’t have an atomic bomb nowadays?"
Even some who lived that era felt the same way. This is from much later in his life, but he lived the 50s and 60s:
"Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet—the only one in the whole Milky Way—with a century of transportation whoopee. Our government is conducting a war against drugs, is it? Let them go after petroleum. Talk about a destructive high! You put some of this stuff in your car and you can go a hundred miles an hour, run over the neighbor’s dog, and tear the atmosphere to smithereens. Hey, as long as we are stuck with being homo sapiens, why not mess around? Let’s wreck the whole joint. Anybody got an atomic bomb? Who doesn’t have an atomic bomb nowadays?"
Vonnegut was extremely cool.
Everyone who thinks Harrison Bergeron is AnTi-SjW is a fucking moron, but then again that extremely lazy interpretation of the story is everywhere.
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