Kurt Vonnegut: We are what we pretend to be | Relaxed Fit Women's Tee

“We are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.“

Kurt Vonnegut was America’s wisecracking moralist, a novelist who mashed up sci-fi, dark humor, and heartbreak into something uniquely his own. A World War II soldier who survived the firebombing of Dresden, he turned trauma into satire in Slaughterhouse-Five, where time travel, aliens, and absurdity make more sense than war itself. His books were funny until you realized they weren’t—that the jokes were smuggling in truths about cruelty, stupidity, and survival.

Vonnegut had no patience for pompous authority or empty nationalism. His writing style was jagged and simple, stripped of pretension, but the moral weight behind it hit hard. Cat’s Cradle skewered science without ethics, Breakfast of Champions lampooned American consumer culture. And running through it all was his shrugging refrain, “So it goes”—half laugh, half lament. Vonnegut didn’t just entertain; he cracked open the absurdity of modern life and dared us to keep our humanity anyway.

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