Kurt Vonnegut's apocalypse

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11123162/kurt_vonnegut_says_this_is_the_end_of_the_world

Vonnegut: "Bush is so ignorant. And I don't like idiotic, impulsive people."

"I'm Jeremiah, and I'm not talking about God being mad at us," novelist Kurt Vonnegut says with a straight face, gazing out the parlor windows of his Manhattan brownstone. "I'm talking about us killing the planet as a life-support system with gasoline. What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world. We've become far too dependent on hydrocarbons, and it's going to suddenly dry up. You talk about the gluttonous Roaring Twenties. That was nothing. We're crazy, going crazy, about petroleum. It's a drug like crack cocaine. Of course, the lunatic fringe of Christianity is welcoming the end of the world as the rapture. So I'm Jeremiah. It's going to have to stop. I'm sorry."

[Poll_Blind]

1. As an athiest, and also humanist, I swear to share what scraps of...

...edible garbage my family finds after the apocalypse with Christians who may be having a hard time scaring up dinner in The Pile. However, any zealouts encountered will quickly become long pig.

PB

[Gregorian]

2. I'm only posting a reply for my own good.

Thank you for turning us on to that article.

I now know I'm not alone. I had a conversation almost identical to that one, with my father last night. Amazing. I also didn't see Gore's movie. I don't need to.

There are more Vonneguts out there than we realize.

[NVMojo]

3. speaking truth to power honestly

[silverweb]

4. A sad, powerful article.

Thank you for posting.

[Phrogman]

5. Kurt's going to sue the tobacco companys...why?

"I've been smoking Pall Mall unfiltered cigarettes since I was twelve or fourteen. So I'm going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, who manufactured them. And do you know why?" "Lung cancer?" I offer.
"No. No. Because I'm eighty-three years old. The lying bastards! On the package Brown & Williamson promised to kill me. Instead, their cigarettes didn't work. Now I'm forced to suffer leaders with names like Bush and Dick and, up until recently, 'Colon.'"....




Dark humor from a brilliant man.