/lit/ - Literature

War is bad. Massacre is bad. And noone should ever be killed, because killing is bad. All with a layer of whiny sarcasm. (Oh btw God is bad too)

Why did you guys trick me in to reading this low-test midwit r/atheist shit again?

is this the most overrated novel ever written?

what would you say are the philosophical influences of slaughterhouse five? nietzsche?

This book is a nihilistic cope for the reality of war and suffering that arises from capitalist conditions of existence. Sweet sweet Vonnegut can't accept that the reason why war occurs is because of his own subjection to these conditions. With his pathetic exemplificiation of something non-human in order to rationalize his own nihilism (muh time is relative, so any moment in time isn't necessarily worse or better, they just 'happen') he succeeds in a next-level narcissism where he no longer needs to regard war as resulting directly from his own ideological reproduction.

Prove me wrong.