Phase 2 Blog 4

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way." This quote reminds me back to Bokonon, he talks about how people how are ignorant are the people who do not learn anything from studying. In reality though Bokonon is the ignorant one, he does not care about human lives. So humans to him are just pawns used for a greater good. Nothing matters to him except the advancements of technology and Bokonoism. Bokonon uses manipulation from the gecko. He gives the people on the island false hope. These people believe Boknon over Felix. Felix is a scientist and he believes science as the proof for everything but Bokonon uses his false religion to capture the peoples mind. This shows in the future that people will do anything in order to gain absolute power.

Phase 2 Blog 3

"I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done."
"Nice going, God!"
"Nobody but You could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have."
"I feel very unimportant compared to You."
"The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and look around."

Even though the author switches from being a Christian to a Bokonoist this quote references back to Christianity. People are the mud and they are not important compared to God. Everyone in the world is small and not even as important as God. To feel important even a tiny bit is to go around and look at what God has created. Humans job in life is to find out and explore the world that God has created for Us. People use manipulation all the time to manipulate peoples lives. In this passage Vonnegut uses religion to manipulate peoples mind.

Phase 2 Blog 2

Technology
"Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns." With the advancement of technology comes the advancement of weapons. War has a connection with technology, technology creates weapons and weapons creates war. The quote shows that humans are just like animals, humans aare like the royal not like animals so why do people fight?  To be human in this quote references that humans are power hungry and everyone jsut cares about killing eachother. This quote is relevent to our current society, alot of people in the United States wonders why are there soilders still in Iraq. Many Americans blame George Bush, in several newsports there were videos of innocent people getting killed. The advancements of weapons are scary and dangerous. People are described as animals and that people should just run around on all fours, from this quote I think that humans don't necessarily see the suffering caused by wars and weapons. The atomic bomb which Hoenikker created shows that humans dont really care about other peoples lives. 

Phase 2 Blog 1

Technology And War 

"The book was to be an account of what important Americans had done on the day when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan." The development of the atomic bomb destroyed thousands of lives and will be remembered in history. The author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. writes this book showing what people were doing on the day of the dropping of the atomic bomb.In my previous blogs of technology, nothing ends good with the development of technology. Technology always in some way destroys society or creates a dystopian society, Vonnegegut captures this masterfully.  Vonnegut shows that Felix does not care about human life and that he only cares about the development of society. He doesnt care at all what happens to him. This is a representation of the future, technology, advancements of weapons will kill hundreds of thousands of people.