Kurt Vonnegut on CBC Radio 2 NOW! (9:30am Pacific)

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go to CBC.ca/bc and click on "listen live"

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1. What did he have to say?

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2. Lots.

It was a :20 interview. He bashed Bush (George Bush is authentically stupid), the WH administration, comparing them to the nazis, and corporate america.

He talked about the one party system masquerading as a two party system ("Skull & Bones versus Skull & Bones"), about corporate america reducing the lived of average prople to servitude of faceless masters, and about his generation and the failed utopia of america ("My dream, when I was fighting in Germany, was that I was fighting for a nation that would have the greatest schools in history, fifteen students to a class... for everybody.

He talked at length about his imminent death (he's 87), and about how we, as humans, are destroying the planet because we are ultimately dissatisfied with life.

He compared the current destruction of our biosphere to a book he meant to write, called "Don't Ruin the Party", in which a giant meteor is on a collision course with the earth, and since the humans in his book can't do anything to stop it, they just don't talk about it; mentioning the meteor is a criminal act.

And to that end, he talked about his lawsuit against Pall Mall, for misrepresntation. He says he's been chain-smoking unfiltered Pall Malls for 75 years, and for decades they've been saying that smoking them was a promise of premature death.



Interviewer: "Do you have any advice for the old people who are leaving the earth to the young people?"

KV: "Apologise. (laughs)(pause) oh, 'love each other', what the hell!"

Interviewer: "Thank you for joining us today."

KV: "Go jump in the lake (laughs)."