Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

There Is Another Human Defect Which The Law Of Natural Selection Has Yet To Remedy: When People Of Today Have Full Bellies, They Are Exactly Like Their Ancestors Of A Million Years Ago: Very Slow To Acknowledge Any Awful Troubles They May Be In. Then Is When They Forget To Keep A Sharp Lookout For Sharks And Whales. This Was A Particularly Tragic Flaw A Million Years Ago, Since The People Who Were Best Informed About The State Of The Planet, Like *Andrew MacIntosh, For Example, And Rich And Powerful Enough To Slow Down All The Waste And Destruction Going On, Were By Definition Well Fed. So Everything Was Always Just Fine As Far As They Were Concerned.

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