Human Stupidity In Cat's Cradle

The narrator of Cat's Cradle, John, once set out to write a book, titled The Day the World Ended, about the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. There is a mass of important quotes and one of them is “If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.” (287) Kurt Vonnegut uses this quote to explain the religion and science, the longstanding antagonism between science and religion is irreconcilable has been taken for

He uses it to support his claim and what he is talking about. Scientists simply think about in one way and other people think about things in others. It tells us about how he shouldn’t be worrying about the people who thinks differently than what you think, it matters what you think of the things you care about it doesn't matter that much to people because your opinion is your own and others to judge it but for you to say something about the point view of what you think of science and religion. Climbing on the top of Mount McCable and lie down doesn’t solve the problem they are having it needs to be solved baces on what can they do to help and support the clam or the

Truth was the enemy of the people, because the truth was so terrible, so Bokonon made it his business to provide the people with better and better lies.” (172) Researching the life of Dr. Felix Hoenikker, a father of the atomic bomb, the narrator's life first gets entangled with one of his sons. The tendrils of one's life are called sinookas. Hoenikker pretty much ignored the world except for the scientific puzzles that engrossed him. The one time he was interested in playing a game was the day the first atomic bomb went