Comment by drewcoo
3 years ago
> from stories I've read it feels like the inflection point was, as with so many things, the Vietnam war
There's not just one inflection point where things get dark. There are many. Vonnegut might be associated with the Vietnam generation, but I think living though the WWII firebombing of Dresden as a POW probably had a bigger impact on him, for example.
I was referring to a societal inflection point, not any one person - of course there are individual counterexamples.
I consider Vonnegut cynical but not dystopian in most cases (Player Piano being a notable exception)