Kurt Vonnegut: My People

[serai]

Here's a vid I came across on Youtube this morning. An attractive young woman calling herself "The Resident", who apparently does a vid series, reading quotes from Kurt's latest, Man Without A Country, and sharing some thoughts. She's pretty okay, but the quotes, both content and reading, are wonderful. So please check it out.

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Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power.


He says so simply and succintly what I believe to be the most Earth-based philosophy on humanity, which is this: taking us into account only as one of the present life-forms on this planet, we're the ones the Earth should be rid of. We do the most damage (hell, we're basically doing all the damage) with the least return, we're changing the weather patterns and we're about to change the land masses, and we're unbridled in every single one of our lusts. Agent Smith was right: we're a virus. It's a no-brainer, really.

Comments

[ferretdad.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this, Serai. I hope Mr. Vonnegut is getting to ask his questions now.

It may be, as he suggested in Galapagos, that large brains just aren't evolutionary winners.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

For years now, I've considered the size of our brains to be due to a kind of cancer - cells growing out of proportion to the detriment of the animal. It seems to me to be the most fitting explanation - other animals don't have these huge heads and they get along just fine. We get them and promptly start taking the whole world apart. Clearly a wrong turn on the road back there.