Is the insanity prevalent on San Lorenzo the inhabitant's reaction to the island's absurdity or simply humanity under a magnifying glass. John acting as our ears and eyes of the average human's interaction with humanity under extreme pressure. Not only pressure from natural resources, but by ideological pressure. Confronted with a radical new lifestyle and no fundamental background to cling to, John embraces this particular answer to the age old question, " Why are we here?" This question isn't as important as the next question he confronts, "Where are we going?" The end of the world and Bokononism as a method to interpret this madness, we edge closer to seeing how a human operates in a near-vacuum. More than a plot device to get the main characters isolated in the same room, this end of days allows us to peak into fundamental portions of the human psyche. In a cosmos as random and bizarre as ours, how can one not accept an answer as equally bizarre as Bokononism?
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