Friday, December 10, 2010
postmodern and cats cradle
According to Lyotard, modern life could be described as "all the world's cultures, rituals, races, databanks, myths and musical motifs are intermixing like a smorgasbord in an earthquake." Postmodernists seem to take belief in that there is no central truth and that there is a beauty in all the chaos and different lifestyles. The prople or world are driven on the idea that there is a central truth or meaning that they are trying to figure out, when really there is no such thing. With the postmodernists arguing that holding or reaching a central truth would destroy all ultimate happiness, and possibly destroy humanity. In the beginning of the story, Vonnegut claims that nothing in the book is true, rather it is a bunch of "foma" (lies). In the book Vonnegut creates a religion called "Bokononism" which is just another lie but makes all the people and follwers of the religion think. It was simply another lie to make the people think and become distracted with their meaningless lives and to keep them on the search for the central truth. Toward the end of the novel a character would start to ask "See the cat? See the cradle?" What he is really meaning is that you play the game but you never see the cat nor the cradle because its just a game that is a lie which never ends. Keeping the player distracted and off target of trying to reach the end of the game.
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