I recently finished a collection of one of my favorite writer's *previously* unpublished works: Sucker's Portfolio. Kurt Vonnegut's mind works in such a brilliantly different way, but he is so exact and fact-finding in his different way of thinking.
It reminds me of the comic stylings of Louis C.K. I mean, this comedian comes on stage to talk about how ugly some children are and how people who are mis-raising their children are simply unable to talk to them. He says it in a funny way, but he's never really joking about the matter in which he speaks.
Vonnegut is the same way. He mentioned in this book that humanity is disgusting and history is just a remembrance of all the terrible things that humans have done to each other and the world connected to us. But he speaks, at the end of this observation, to the point that most of us are OK. With all the terrible happenings and murders and inequalities and mutilations and hatred and wars and bombs that were built to destroy the other horizon as though there were more than two on this planet.
With all of the terrible, most humans have turned out OK.
I guess we aren't so bad after all.
Just gotta keep on keeping on.
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