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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. imagined a world in which war, crippling disease, old age, and death were relics of an earlier age. Scientists tinkered with the monumental task of population control and had mechanisms in place that ensured we didn’t overburden the planet’s resources. Nonetheless, the outcome was not as rosy as expected.
“During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we’ve ever been in—and which we lost—every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.”