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17 Kurt Vonnegut Quotes on Understanding the World We Live In

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Anonymous
February 4, 2023 7:45 am

“Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie within every human being, looked outward—pushed ever outward. What mankind hoped to learn in its outward push was who was actually in charge of all creation, and what all creation was all about.

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end.

It flung them like stones.

These unhappy agents found that what had already been found in abundance on Earth—a nightmare of meaninglessness without end. The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

Outwardness lost, at last, its imagined attractions.

Only inwardness remained to be explored.

Only the human soul remain terra incognita.

This was the beginning of goodness and wisdom.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

Cedartown Mark
Cedartown Mark
February 4, 2023 9:18 am

Now I’ll have to watch Slaughterhouse Five again.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 4, 2023 9:48 am

“Those who live by electronics, die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human beings,” said Paul, “not to serve as appendages to machines, institutions, and systems.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“Don’t put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It’s just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you’ve made up your mind which way to go.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

MORE: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1005005-player-piano

“I can see the…seams where they’re put together. And, almost, see the apparatus inside them take the words I just said and try to fit the words in here and there, this place and that, and when they find the words don’t have any place ready-made where they’ll fit, the machinery disposes of the words like they weren’t even spoken.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2100252-one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest

“True freedom and sanity spring from the same spiritual well, already mixed, just add incentive. Insanity, on the other hand, is dependent on material fad and fashion, and the weave of one’s prison is of that material. “But I didn’t weave it,” I hear you protest. “My parents, their parents, generations before me wove it!” Could be, but when you’re a prisoner, the task is not to shout epithets at the warden, but to get out.”
~ Ken Kesey
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Electricity . . . electricity . . . electricity . . .
is it the basis of the WEF-Davos techno-Panopticon?

Nikola Tesla: Possessed by Ahriman

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
February 4, 2023 1:47 pm

Politicians pretend to care about America. That will never come to pass. But I guess they are only pretending to pretend.

Freddy Uranus
Freddy Uranus
February 5, 2023 7:12 am

Love the quotes, but Quote #1 and #3 are pretty much contradictory…Just sayin.