What Would Vonnegut Think?

What would Vonnegut think about this blogging project we're doing? Well, I think he'd think it's great! Check the video below and then read on, or else you're not really going to understand much. Skip to 1:18 if you don't want to watch the whole thing. 

When the interviewer asked "Kurt Vonnegut hasn't said everything he could possibly say?", Vonnegut replied "Well no. But here all my books are in print and they're doing the talking for me, and that was essentially the ideas I had.". This makes me believe that the reason he wrote was to put out his opinions for the whole world to read. I think Vonnegut did what he said, he "let his books do the talking for him", and just wrote to get his messages out.  Whatever message he wanted to voice, he would voice it through writing. And that's basically what a blog is: having an opinion and then voicing it by posting it for the entire world to see. Other people read it and then they can re-blog it or comment on it, and the message kind of gets transferred from one person to another.This happens especially with our blogging assignment. We have two classes worth of blogs connected to one main central blog. From the main one we can check out other peoples blogs, and on those we can comment and express our own opinions by disagreeing or agreeing. We can also feed off of each others ideas and opinions, reblogging somebody's idea while adding some of your own or getting inspiration off of them. 


I think that Vonnegut would definitely support and approve of this assignment if he was still alive. It's doing exactly what he did, except in a different form. It's the communication of a message or lesson in the form of writing.