What if Kurt Vonnegut’s lost board game had actually been published in the 1950s?
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  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    That sounds really cool.

    I’m glad the article discusses the irony of a pacifist writer producing a well thought out war game. It sounds like a duality of modern culture: we know war is terrible and destructive, but we also fetishize it.

    • Cort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Not sure that’s irony. While he was a pacifist, he also served in the armed forces in WWII and survived the firebombing of Dresden as a pow. Kurt wrote about what he knew.