yup, thus my silence, but again I appreciate your expression of opinion. . . . OK, here is an opinion that is totally heretical: Vonnegut was an expression of a movement that has essentially doomed western thought. Evan Sayet recently did a wonderful job expressing what has happened to our civilization, essentially expanding on the Scripture, "Woe to them that call good evil and evil good." The 3 figures of the 20th century that had the most influence in moral equivalence where Gandhi, John Lennon, and in prominence by dint of his death, Kurt Vonnegut.
Where Gandhi saw no difference between warring for conquest and self-defense, Lennon imagined a world without judgment and discretion and Vonnegut saw the war of liberation that had to bomb Dresden and Hiroshima as indistinguishable from the Holocaust. While these are valid personal exercises in morality, it leaves us with a generation of "men without chests" to echo C.S. Lewis. History will judge whether the brutality of Hitler or the philosophical castration of moral equivalence was more evil.
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OK, here is an opinion that is totally heretical:
Vonnegut was an expression of a movement that has essentially doomed western thought. Evan Sayet recently did a wonderful job expressing what has happened to our civilization, essentially expanding on the Scripture, "Woe to them that call good evil and evil good." The 3 figures of the 20th century that had the most influence in moral equivalence where Gandhi, John Lennon, and in prominence by dint of his death, Kurt Vonnegut.
Where Gandhi saw no difference between warring for conquest and self-defense, Lennon imagined a world without judgment and discretion and Vonnegut saw the war of liberation that had to bomb Dresden and Hiroshima as indistinguishable from the Holocaust. While these are valid personal exercises in morality, it leaves us with a generation of "men without chests" to echo C.S. Lewis. History will judge whether the brutality of Hitler or the philosophical castration of moral equivalence was more evil.