Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mar…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1988). Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1988). Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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