Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quote
The meeting with Hapgood came about because I had told Uncle Alex that I might try to get a job with a labor union after the Army let me go. Unions were admirable instruments for extorting something like economic justice from employers then. Uncle Alex must have thought something like this: God help us. Against stupidity even the gods contend in vain. Well—at least there is a Harvard man with whom he can discuss this ridiculous dream. (It was Schiller who first said that about stupidity and the gods. This was Nietzsche’s reply: Against boredom even the gods contend in vain.)
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The meeting with Hapgood came about because I had told Uncle Alex that I might try to get a job with a labor union after the Army let me go. Unions were admirable instruments for extorting something like economic justice from employers then. Uncle Alex must have thought something like this: God help us. Against stupidity even the gods contend in vain. Well—at least there is a Harvard man with whom he can discuss this ridiculous dream. (It was Schiller who first said that about stupidity and the gods. This was Nietzsche’s reply: Against boredom even the gods contend in vain.)
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