WAR

“Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn’t well connected.”

Sadly, this reminds me of our current reality.

It reminds me of the way we treat others and it reminds me of the superficial culture we have become. It is simple for us all to say that we are not superficial, that we care for others and we give away all that we have.

That is a lie.

We may feel like giving to others every once in a while, and I would love to be selfless and help everyone. But humans (yes, me included) are naturally selfish. There is no way to deny that. When it comes to a very big and important choice, you will always put yourself first. I have tried to deny it, but truthfully, it’s something we can’t help.

War is unnatural. War is just “… the incredible artificial weather that Earthlings sometimes create for other Earthlings when they don’t want those other Earthlings to inhabit Earth anymore.” We have come to a point where we invent excuses to start a war. As a race we have stopped caring about each other and thus have completely unbalanced the world.

In Slaughterhouse Five I have noticed that most of the characters seem to think of the war as a waste of time. Billy really doesn’t care for it, Derby describes it as unnatural, and even Vonnegut is clearly disturbed by it.

From this it is not hard to draw the conclusion that on the whole, war is a pretty pathetic thing.