Kurt Vonnegut on Finding the MIRACULOUS in the MUNDANE

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Amid all the loneliness and despair that now surround us, legendary and prolific author Kurt Vonnegut offers some wise and brilliant advice on why we should go outside into the world to seek out human connections to discover the magic in the seemingly mundane aspects of life.
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Kurt Vonnegut's 2004 lecture where he retells his envelope story: • Kurt Vonnegut Lecture
The excerpt from Vonnegut's interview with Harper's: theody.net/vonnegut.html
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@tomsortore8301 19 күн бұрын

I would love to have met this amazing man!! Drove a motorcycle from Baltimore to Alaska in 1980. With a tent and some jack Daniel's and some kurt vonnegut. Pure bliss

@feverandfret 18 күн бұрын

That sounds like one amazing trip. I can imagine you learned so much from that.

@kelleemerson9510 17 күн бұрын

Sounds to me like he was awakened to gratitude and you too can do that.

@katec7033 16 күн бұрын

Check out Peter Reed’s book called Kurt Vonnegut jr. the first book on Vonnegut’s work. I was lucky enough to know Peter Reed and his wife (family friends) they did say how kind he was. His “religion” was Humanist.

@katec7033 16 күн бұрын

They were good friends of Vonnegut.

@liberty-matrix 16 күн бұрын

"The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more but have less, we buy more but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge but less judgment, more experts yet more problems, more medicine but less wellness." ~George Carlin

@feverandfret 16 күн бұрын

Amazing quote. I'd love to use it in future vid. Thank you.

@MrGriff305 15 күн бұрын

"That's mostly bullshit from a guy who gets attention being negative and cynical." ~Me

@thechapelperilous 14 күн бұрын

“One of the more embarrassing items [attributed to me] making the internet/e-mail rounds is a sappy load of shit called “The Paradox of our time.” The main problem I have with it is that as true as some of the expressed sentiments may be, who really gives a shit? Certainly not me. I figured out years ago that the human species is totally fucked and has been for a long time. I also know that the sick, media-consumer culture in America continues to make this so-called problem worse. But the trick, folks, is not to give a fuck. Like me. I really don’t care. I stopped worrying about all this temporal bullshit a long time ago. It’s meaningless. (See the preface of “Brain Droppings (1997).”) Another problem I have with “Paradox” is that the ideas are all expressed in a sort of pseudo-spiritual, New-Age-y, “Gee-whiz-can’t-we-do-better-than-this” tone of voice. It’s not only bad prose and poetry, it’s weak philosophy. I hope I never sound like that." George Carlin.

@alexanderwindh4830 13 күн бұрын

Wow. Yes

@BlueBeeMCMLXI 18 күн бұрын

You go so far for this: The people YOU meet ARE your life.

@daniel_moretti 12 күн бұрын

Such an excellent and insightful video! We spend so much time looking for the meaning of life, ignoring that it is right in front of us, right before our eyes. Thank you for that oh so valuable reminder!!

@darrenwendroff3441 16 күн бұрын

This is an incredible presentation of Vonnegut's work. I'm going to read him more in the next few months because of your video. Excellent job my friend, look forward to more of your work.

@feverandfret 16 күн бұрын

Thanks so much for the kind words!

@KameaMedia 17 күн бұрын

He really did buy one Manilla envelope at a time. I witnessed it at the Post Office when he was in Northampton, -teaching at Smith College for a semester some years back. He held it between thumb and forefinger as he walked up Main Street.

@simonagree4070 19 күн бұрын

Vonnegut had to say these things to reassure himself because, as an attempted suicide, he was intimately acquainted with despair. Let's get the full picture.

@Scott-sx1bf 10 күн бұрын

Fwiw, I’d rather hear about the world from someone who traveled it than from someone who read about it.

@simonagree4070 7 күн бұрын

If anybody else, like Richard DeLaurell who appears to have deleted his comment, is doubtful about my reference to Vonnegut as an "attempted suicide", KV brings the matter up in his book, Fates Worse Than Death, page 181. It's also in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Just clarifiyin'.

@stevierayripple 16 күн бұрын

Most people think they "need" SO much meaning in their life,,, they don't .....

@wildernesshermit 8 күн бұрын

Very nice. Many thanks.

@flow963 17 күн бұрын

Excellent! Lord, that Kurt and his wit were still here to nourish us 🙏

@neilsmall1487 19 күн бұрын

...read his book, Slaughter House Five. His war experience was a cosmic 2 x 4...

@StateoftheMatrix 5 күн бұрын

An opportunity to experience life: "... and got to meet a cop and tell him about it."

@rawbinmo 16 күн бұрын

Love this.

@justaman33 16 күн бұрын

Thank you. Cheers

@malcolmwatt7386 11 күн бұрын

Okay. So why did Vonnegut put on this big show out here in BC? When I saw him in Nanaimo Hospital I just stared at him with nothing to say. There he was after having been reported dead and his younger self (an actor) making appearances at Hudsons Bay Mall in Victoria and influencing the small theater group I had established in Victoria. That isn't mundane, that's cruel.

@bentrider 17 күн бұрын

BRILLIANT!!!😊

@feverandfret 17 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@jiggersotoole7823 8 күн бұрын

Happiness is an empty house. (it means you have to out to get things) *preferably on foot.

@Allen-eq5uf 6 күн бұрын

I need people……to serve me.

@rustyshimstock8653 19 күн бұрын

K.V. Indianapolis's favorite son.

@conniewhall3109 21 күн бұрын

Butt, if something doesn't smell right? Or smells rotten? "Better OUT than IN.", sez Shrek. Some of the best Self Comforting hax: 1) Belching. Humorous from 3 years old. 2) Farting. Humorous from 3 years & 1 day old. (Gotta give the Belching thing a full day to sink in.) 3) Picking one's nose. We are born with this talent. 4) Picking one's own seat. A must have duty when one goes out in public. You know, like the movie. Just saying. =^..^=

@ericolander8755 17 күн бұрын

Sure socializing the malady we are addicted to and the lonely disconnectedness withdrawl symptoms.

@jonathanbuyno9461 8 күн бұрын

I am not a social creature. I do not belong to this world.

@ZER0-- 4 күн бұрын

Thing is if you spend your life farting around then you tend to have few friends. People don't like people who don't have jobs or do normal.

@coldpotatoes2556 7 күн бұрын

Smile a passers by😂....not in my suburb buddy.

@haraldtheyounger5504 14 күн бұрын

Don't tell the Climate Change people we're "here to fart around".

@robertjsmith 14 күн бұрын

It’s the “farts” that are causing global warming.

@jiggersotoole7823 8 күн бұрын

That makes zero sense.

@haraldtheyounger5504 8 күн бұрын

@@jiggersotoole7823 Makes perfect sense if you understand the context.

@jiggersotoole7823 7 күн бұрын

@@haraldtheyounger5504 Elaborate

@haraldtheyounger5504 7 күн бұрын

@@jiggersotoole7823 What does the heading on the thumbnail say? "We are here to fart around". What does the Climate Change people claim is causing Climate Change? Put it all together, methane is part of the serious danger to this planet and ourselves in their erroneous belief.