ll things To seem to make some sense,So we could all be happy, yes,Instead of tense.And I made up liesSo that they all fit niceAnd made this sad worldA par-a-dise (90).This calypso expresses the purpose of Bokonon and why it, with its harmless untruths, exists. The following one is about the outlawing of Bokonon. To make the religion more appealing to the people, the leaders had it banned, with its practice punishable by death. They hoped that a renegade religion with a rebel leader would appeal to the people more.So I said good-bye to government,and I gave my reason:That a really good religionIs a form of treason (118)These calypsos, and the rest of the book, express the points Vonnegut in a more abstract , symbolic manner. They only add to the impact of the books message expressing it in a very short, satirical way. The black humor used when talking about the end of the worldذthe nuclear endذwas pioneered by Vonnegut. But what many consider to be the the climax of this pop culture phenomena is Stanley Kubrick’s movie, Dr. Strangelove(Stone 69). Subtitled Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb , this movie was Kubrick’s viewpoint on how mad the entire Cold War and arms race had become. Based a little known book by English science fiction writer Peter George, Red Alert, the movie is about how one maverick Air Force general, who is obviously suffering a severe mental illness, concocts a plan to save the world from the Gioielli 8Communists. He manages to order the strategic bombers under his command to proceed to their targets in the Soviet Union. They all believe it is World War Three, and the General, Jack Ripper, is the only one that can call the planes back. Kubrick’s characters: Dr. Strangelove, President Mertin Muffley, Premier Kissof and others, go through a series a misadventures to try and turn the planes around. But the one, plane piloted by Major زKingس Kong, does get throu...
