by Chris Alexion, Copyright April 17, 2007, all rights reserved. 448 views
LewRockwell.com just published a short piece of mine on Kurt Vonnegut:
Author Kurt Vonnegut died last week at age 84, leaving his skeptical but stubbornly human stamp on American literature. Like most English majors, I studied Vonnegut in college, but it's for a short story one of my professors recommended outside of class that I actually remember him. Americans today regard Vonnegut's legacy as cynical–which it certainly was. Yet his story "Harrison Bergeron," written in 1961, reveals a more positive upshot of Vonnegut's doubt: his mistrust of the state….
1 • LHR • April 18, 2007 • 4:28 PM
Interesting and well written! We are equal before God and the law (or should be), but let's face it–people are different. (Life is so much more interesting this way!) We have don't all have the same talents and abilities. You can handle the debates and such like, but let me bake the cheesecake (though you could probably make a pretty serious cheesecake, but that isn't the point). Let's accept the facts and rejoice in the variety of gifts and talents that the Lord has given us instead of trying to smash everyone into the same mold. There is beauty in diversity.
"I know I'm different from everybody else, but is that so wrong?" ./chrisalexion_2008-10_wordpress_export_files/icon_smile.gif alt=:- class=wp-smiley
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