Slip Of The Mind

 Well, i guess this is my fist official late assignment...that sucks.

What makes Cat’s Cradle Postmodern is its heavy reliance on Bokonon. The whole Bokononism is a kind of postmodernist religion. With all these -isms claiming, (capitalism, communism, socialism?) and that is: that only their -ism is the right one for the world. The founder of Bokononism was Lionel Boyd Johnson, whose name was corrupted by the island dialect. Bokononism contains the postmodernist misreading, combination and anarchy at once. Even the first verse in the Book of Bokonons says: "All of the true things that I am to tell you are shameless lies." Here we can see Vonnegut's opinion about religion. He tells us, that people always look for something to what they can believe. "Truth was the enemy of the people, because the truth was so terrible, so Bokonon made it his business to provide the people with better and better lies." The religion just covers the horrible truths out there. Bokononism is like a play. All the people are actors, which are fed with lies and like in a Christianity or other religions, they don't question it, they just blindly follow it. They believe in their made up religion, they believe in something which is not. Like Cat's Cradle, which for some people is just a bunch of strings, for some a real image of a Cradle. The crisis of Christianity (religion) is according to interview with Vonnegut: "The adults can not regard themselves as God's little sheep anymore." This a postmodernist feature, which is typical for many postmodernist books. The main faith is not based in some religion, but in man himself.  Even Felix Hoenikker was described as person so innocent, that he was practically a Jesus.  An open critique of the Catholic Church is included in one of the Calypsos as well:

On the Natives of San Lorenzo:
Oh, a very sorry people, yes,
Did I find here.
Oh, they had no music,
And they had no beer.
And, oh, everywhere
Where they tried to perch
Belonged to Castle Sugar, Incorporated,
Or the Catholic church.

This shows, through Vonnegut’s almost attire of religion, just how postmodernist Cat’s Cradle is. Blog OVER! & that's what i'm throwing.