On Reading Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country (Part Two) 3-11-2013

    [ I am back working through my prison journal. It is out of order… Well, the order is as I have opened boxes. The date in the title is the date it was written. I hope this is not confusing. What you are reading is what you get for your tax dollars. 

Continued from On Reading Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country (Part One) 3-11-2013. sch 7/23/2025] 

Kurt Vonnegut Jr's A Man Without A Country goes on about fossil fuels destroying humanity, He wrote:

What was the end? Some might say Adam and Eve and the apple of knowledge, a clear case of entrapment. I say it was Prometheus, a Titan, a son of gods, who in Greek myth stole fire from Zeus and gave it to human beings. The god were so mad they chained him naked to a rock with his back exposed, and had eagles eat his liver....

And it is now plan that the gods were right to do that. Our close cousins the gorillas and orangs and chimps and gibbon apes have gotten along just fine all this time while eating raw vegetable matter, whereas we not only prepare hot meals but have now all but destroyed this once salubrious planet as a life-support system in fewer than two hundred years, mainly by making thermodynamics whoopee with fossil fuels.

Chapter 4. 

Vonnegut calls himself a Luddite. Maybe he approached technology with more sanity. Having once swam in the computer/Internet ocean, I can say there is much I miss (information in seconds and spell check), but much that was plain wearisome.

Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Chapter 6.

That crystallizes what always bothered me about Facebook - its emptiness. 

[7/23/2025:

One thing missing from prison is information. No Google. I would have liked to see what others thought about the books I noted above. Well, I got that chance now, and you can decide if I am a moron or not. You may also want to follow the links provided in the text.

Continued in On Reading Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country (Part Three) 3-11-2013. sch.]