Re-reading God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater for the first time in 30 yrs. SO timely today!

[HardPort]

e.g.
“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.”

ALSO:

“You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.”

AND MOSTLY:

“There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.”

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Two of the greatest minds of the 20th century...Mr. V and

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3. . Absolutely!! Those two had the "american dream" pegged for what it is.

Great freaking handle there Eliot!! I'm rereading all of Vonnegut's works, which I read in my 20s and 30s in my 50s.

[Jimvanhise]

4. FOX NEWS MOCKED VONNEGUT WHEN HE DIED

Kurt Vonnegut opposed the war in Iraq early on when it was not popular to do so. Because of that, when he died in 2007, Fox News did a mocking obituary about him. It is on Youtube.

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5. Just one more example of them landing on the wrong side of history, what fuckwads.

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. I need to reread his books. They are wonderful and

probably now banned.