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The infinite mind with Kurt Vonnegut

submitted by peggedbea

1 decade 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago

In August 2006, the national, weekly public radio program, The Infinite Mind, made broadcast history as it aired a four-part special taped inside the 3-D virtual on-line community Second Life. Among those interviewed in front of a live, virtual audience was author Kurt Vonnegut. The 40-minute conversation with Vonnegut was the author's last sit-down interview. The host was The Infinite Mind's John Hockenberry, who was with Vonnegut in the studio where the program was created. This is a machinima video of Vonnegut's interview, taped at the 16-acre virtual broadcast center in Second Life built by Lichtenstein Creative Media, which produces The Infinite Mind. (yt)

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“The three most powerful people in the country are named Bush, Dick, and Colin....”

“Studying chemisry is sort of like learning how to be a cook.”

“(a great country) would provide great public schools with classes of twelve or smaller.”

“The older I get, the dumber I get.”

“A sculptor is happy when he finds out where his piece is going to live.”

“...(our soldiers) are being treated like the toys a rich kid got for Chistmas.”

“We need extended families as much as we need vitamins and minerals.”

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A rare treat. Thank you so much.

i first read vonneguts ideas on extended families when i was 15, they have had a profound impact on my personal, spiritual and political ideologies. thank you sir.

Extended families = the tribe.

Not the Pope. Not the Pharaoh.

It means that I as a leader will protect my people, not suck off of them like a giant leech.

Not beg them to trust me as I rob them blind.

Good talk, but god that second life is off putting.

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