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Kurt Who?

What Kurt Vonnegut said in this very brief interview would be laughable, were it not so ridiculously stupid. But wait - that's not even the scary part. Start reading the comments section - whoa. There are some bona-fide nutjobs in this crowd. As far as my estimation of Vonnegut as a writer...well, I tried reading "Cat's Cradle" about eight or ten years ago, and gave up after page six...it was just incomprehensible drivel.

Here's a sample of one of the comments on the interview; it's in response to someone who (properly) decried Vonnegut's socialism:

"Do you even know what socialism is? It's about the working people owning the means of producing what we need to live, and not having to earn the right to live by selling our labor to the clique that owns everything. It's about the profit motive being secondary to the interests of the people. It's about citizen control of business and trade in the public interest. But I suppose your indoctrination as a 'capitalist' makes you 'just know' that having the richest five-percent of the population own eighty-some percent of the world's resources is, like, a really good thing, just because, huh?"

I'll leave it to better writers to properly savage this entire piece.