tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11628754.post543696749776172534..comments2024-03-29T02:49:19.300-04:00Comments on Fat in Indiana: And so it goes...Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269114655802698386noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11628754.post-62281634477209736712012-10-15T09:03:26.604-04:002012-10-15T09:03:26.604-04:00I read Vonnegut in my 20's and felt exactly li...I read Vonnegut in my 20's and felt exactly like you do in your 50's.<br /><br />Bubblegum for the leftist faux-literati.Fuzzy Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802539927743643041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11628754.post-22973628504084236782012-10-14T09:50:22.986-04:002012-10-14T09:50:22.986-04:00I don’t think time actually dampens intellectual c...I don’t think time actually dampens intellectual capability, what happens is life experience tends to filter out the bullshit. When we reach a certain age, we have learned that nothing is fair, fair is thinking there is some sort of cosmic balance which will level out the differences in intelligence, luck and hard work. What I thought was true and good early in my youth was just a fairy tale, both are based on the perspective of the viewers. There is only one real truth, we will all die. All the rest is basically bullshit.<br />JOGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11628754.post-65772417641264333172012-10-14T08:43:40.996-04:002012-10-14T08:43:40.996-04:00When young, I enjoyed them also.
Found them satiri...When young, I enjoyed them also.<br />Found them satirical and ironic.<br />Recently someone told me that automation had cost so many jobs.<br />I was reminded of V's book (I get his titles, except Slaughterhouse 5 and Cat's Cradle confused) about the horrible effects of automation on the labor pool.<br />Automation, in reality, led to a surge in productivity and increases in manufacturing and labor opportunity.<br />Vonnegut (or was it Kilgore Trout?) was wrong. Gasp.<br /> Ed Bonderenkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03724552853113809036noreply@blogger.com