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How's that quote from Vonnegut go?
"every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high."
"every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high."
That's powerful in a way that hurts.
If I didn't know the source I'd assume it was a line I missed from Disco Elysium.
God damn Vonnegut, exactly right as usual. I can't believe how little attention I paid to Vonnegut when I was younger, I always dismissed him because I was insufferable and thought he was for dumb (cool) kids with poor taste (who did drugs).
But only he managed to finally capture feelings that I had been struggling with, in Slaughterhouse V, when the grindset self-made millionaire guy keeps making a point of telling a bombing survivor that "it had to be done." I could write a long essay about that exchange.