Topic > Analysis of Kurt Vonnegut's "1983: New York" - 1025
Drug addicts are on a plane full of people who can cure their disease while war preparers accommodate those whose disease is incurable and those deemed unsuitable for society. Both groups of people have elements about themselves that are wrong, but the latter group's elements are worse. War planners cannot be cured of the disease that plagues their brains, and calling them drug addicts, just as Vonnegut does, undermines the process that drug addicts go through to help themselves. These people who love the so-called “art” of war are no sicker than a
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