Tuesday, April 22, 2014

What's wrong with us?-Cat's Cradle post...

Cat's Cradle was hands down the most interesting book I have read from Vonnegut, aside for Slaughterhouse Five and many others. It got me really thinking and being confused and like trying to figure out what is going on, but the more you read into it the more you will get the gist of it, if not maybe understanding it fully. The clash of Religion and Science had really made it's point, especially among Human Stupidity. We all view things differently and we all have our different aspects of how well we understand science, but if we don't quite understand the mystery then we should not try to risk such disastrous outcome that may happen the further we go into studying something no one understands. Something so dangerous as ice-nine should have have been released upon in this story, it affected everyone. Even if you are lucky you haven't come into contact with ice-nine, the disaster that ice-nine has caused made most people lose their mind and commit suicide. I believe that Vonnegut's stories/books/essays are a way to make fun of certain things along with having imagination as to what if? What if such science experiments were to happen and what if it got into the wrong hands or something bad happened while experimenting on it. Religion takes affect onto how we want to view things in the world, we make religion happen based on how we want to be and how we want others to be, as well as how we want everyone to think alike and agree with everything someone has to say. They don't want there to be any rights and wrongs, just simply I am right and everything I believe in is right. They want this utopian society that we will never have, no matter how hard they try to enforce the perfect rules and have the perfect life and world, there will always be some chaotic even happening to make everyone lose their place, even if it takes on person to make it happen. This book simply has my mind going into a scrambled mess where I can't even think or even grasp at what I am trying to make sense in saying. It's in different directions, and can't really come into conclusion the ending of the book or the ending of my thoughts. But I do know the Kurt Vonnegut has a great mind when it comes to writing his shit down.  Human stupidity is what's wrong with our society, we aren't careful about things anymore especially when it comes to the unknown. we want to figure out what it is and how it works and try to further our examination on everything out there. My advice is simply this: Some things are meant to be left alone! Some things are meant to be unknown and mysterious to us. We are not always meant to figure out what every little-old or knew-things are....stop before some disastrous catastrophe happens for real. But on the other end, it would be cool to see what would happen and how we all would react and maybe....just maybe...learn from our mistakes..again.. The only question that remains for me is: What's wrong with us?

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