Posted Monday night, July 17, 2017.
Yossarian, in his old age, contemplates the state of the world from his hospital bed. Heller wrote this in 1994.
A prick in the White House? It would not be the first time. Another oil tanker had broken up. There was radiation. Garbage. Pesticides, toxic waste, and free enterprise. There were enemies of abortion who wished to inflict the death penalty on everyone who was not pro-life. There was mediocrity in government, and self-interest too. There was trouble in Israel. These were not mere delusions. He was not making them up. Soon they would be cloning human embryos for sale, fun, and replacement parts. Men earned millions producing nothing more substantial than changes in ownership. The Cold War was over and there was still no peace on earth. Nothing made sense and neither did everything else. People did things without knowing why and then tried to find out.
---from Closing Time by Joseph Heller.
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