Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape
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#3Direct link to the Vonnegut recordings
https://www.92ny.org/archives/kurt-vonnegut,-jr
Re: Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape
#4Was just thinking to myself how Player Piano has never been more appropriate than the AI age we’re in such a hurry to usher in.
Re: Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape
#5Was just thinking to myself how Player Piano has never been more appropriate than the AI age we’re in such a hurry to usher in.
Agree. It's just not a very good Vonnegut novel though. You can see him without (yet) a voice in the novel.
If "Breakfast of Champions" is a little too nutty though, I think I might like his "Mother Night" best. (But maybe we like nutty Kurt?)
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#6Was just thinking to myself how Player Piano has never been more appropriate than the AI age we’re in such a hurry to usher in.
Maybe the reason westworld made it such a prominent theme in the show. All of season 3 is essentially that story.
But what vonnegut missed or questioned is what is we aren’t much more either. (Core thesis of the show is that skinner proved we are mostly the same as a player piano anyways)
Re: Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape
#7Was just thinking to myself how Player Piano has never been more appropriate than the AI age we’re in such a hurry to usher in.
I happened to reread it recently and was absolutely blown away by how relevant it is today, and how it is almost certainly more relevant today than when it was written.
Re: Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape
#8Was just thinking to myself how Player Piano has never been more appropriate than the AI age we’re in such a hurry to usher in.
Agree. It's just not a very good Vonnegut novel though. You can see him without (yet) a voice in the novel. If "Breakfast of Champions" is a little too nutty though, I think I might like his "Mother Night" best. (But maybe we like nutty Kurt?)
I think "Hocus Pocus" is his best, followed by "Cat's Cradle". But how lucky are we to have so many good ones to pick from?
Re: Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape
#9Was just thinking to myself how Player Piano has never been more appropriate than the AI age we’re in such a hurry to usher in.
Agree. It's just not a very good Vonnegut novel though. You can see him without (yet) a voice in the novel. If "Breakfast of Champions" is a little too nutty though, I think I might like his "Mother Night" best. (But maybe we like nutty Kurt?)
Mother Night is the book that has become more relevant every year since it was published, in 1962.
Every time someone is an "Ironic Nazi" online I think of that book, and how 4chan evolved into the modern political juggernaut it is today.
Re: Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape
#10Was just thinking to myself how Player Piano has never been more appropriate than the AI age we’re in such a hurry to usher in.
I happened to reread it recently and was absolutely blown away by how relevant it is today, and how it is almost certainly more relevant today than when it was written.
I think Vonnegut really had his pulse on the human condition. Writers such Aldous Huxley could capture parts of it but Vonnegut seemed to capture it in just about every book.