This wonderful essay in Common Dreams, which website should be bookmarked by any caring and thinking person, is spot on in connecting Kurt Vonnegut, the romance of socialism, and where are society promotes brutality in the name of markets. Vonnegut longed for a return of socialism as an aesthetic, not an ideology, and bringing socialist thinking more in line with 19th iterations, based within American philosophical pragmatism--where the default question is, Are we being nice to people, and particularly those in need?
