Post-Moondernism

We've been talking a lot in class about how Billy's experiences may be manifestations of PTSD - that is, if his jumping around in time and experiences on Tralfamadore are to be taken metaphorically and not literally. (For the purposes of this post, I am going to take them metaphorically, though there is some ambiguity in the way Vonnegut writes the story.) To try to better understand this metaphor, I looked up some basic information on PTSD and found that although Billy exhibits many of the symptoms, he also seems to exhibit unexpected behavior for someone with PTSD. The article I found cites the main symptoms of PTSD as being: "1.  Re-experiencing the trauma through intrusive distressing recollections of the event, flashbacks, and nightmares, 2.  Emotional numbness and avoidance of places, people, and activities that are reminders of the trauma, and 3.  Increased arousal such as   difficulty sleeping  and concentrating, feeling jumpy, and being easily irri...

I want to assert right now, I don't think that Mr. Leff is Thor Wintergreen. I'm sorry for deceiving and using you. We've been talking a lot in class recently about modern manifestations of Jes Grew and Atonism and the specifics of those ideologies. My thoughts about Jes Grew and Atonism in the "real world" have mainly revolved around phenomena which could be considered both - Pro-Jes-Grew texts written in Atonist ways, or as we talked about in class today, Bruno Mars' Super Bowl performance in which he calls upon elements of hip-hop culture but his performance is "watered down" for an Atonist audience. As if I didn't already have enough brain food, we started talking about jazz culture in the 1920s in US History class this week, an inherently Jes Grew topic in a somewhat Atonist setting. I started thinking, how do we evaluate phenomena with both Jes Grew and Atonist elements? What do we label them? Is US History class a form of Jes Grew? For...