This weeks readings were two farewell addresses at two different school. The first one was about pessimism and how the military and the lawyers solve problems. The second article was about religion and how science works. He talks about Communism and how is son graduated form Harvard Medical School.
All in all these speeches jumped around a lot and were very hard to follow. They were funny but I struggled to see the main focus of the speeches. I thought the jumping around kept it interesting and would help the listener stay interested but i do not know if i am supposed to take, Go to church out of this or Lethal injection is good out of them. They were talking about very controversial issues of that time. Now a days some of it is not at hyped up as it is in the speeches. I liked the speeches but did not understand the point in either of them.
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October 6th, 2011 at 1:21 am
I agree with you, I didn’t get much out of the reading besides Vonnegut being a pessimist and that he was in WWII. The other thing I got was how he was saying that science is hurting us because it made us create weapons like the atomic bomb or H-bomb. Then, dropping a big one in Japan causing mass destruction.
October 6th, 2011 at 3:19 am
I also agree with you. The reading were quite confusing because they bounced around so much. It was interesting, however, I did not enjoy how pessimist he was about everything.
January 2nd, 2013 at 9:34 am
I like your idea about fear and it is the main motivating factor behind helping those who listen to the story uphold the virtues that is the story is trying to convey.