he meant an end to Big Answers from Very Serious Men thinking Very Serious Thoughts about How the World Should Work.
he meant an end to literary conformity and t.s. eliot's elitist critical framework.
he meant a beginning to deep thought about the absurdities of life and how many of them are our own creations: governments and militaries run amok, nuclear weapons, fire-bombing, civilian casulties, american social hierarchies.
the problem is that we stopped believing him, or never fully believed him to begin with.
we are roughly 30 years beyond vonnegut's vanguard moment, if measured simply in temporal increments. the reality is that we're years behind his best ideas.
how terribly sad is that?
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