Paroles de Vonnegut

Le grand et vieil (85 ans) écrivain anarchiste américain Kurt Vonnegut était à Columbus, dans l’Ohio, au début du mois. Le Columbus free Press a rapporté quelques moments d’une causerie faite devant 2.000 étudiants, à l’Ohio Union. C’était le plus grand rassemblement pour un conférencier depuis la venue de Michael Moore.

Extraits :

« “Well,” says Vonnegut, “I just want to say that George W. Bush is the syphilis president.”

» The students seem to agree.

» “The only difference between Bush and Hitler,” Vonnegut adds, “is that Hitler was elected.”

» “You all know, of course, that the election was stolen. Right here.”

(...)

» “We have people in this country who are richer than whole countries,” he says. “They run everything.

»  “We have no Democratic Party. It’s financed by the same millionaires and billionaires as the Republicans.

»  “So we have no representatives in Washington. Working people have no leverage whatsoever.

»  “I’m trying to write a novel about the end of the world. But the world is really ending! It’s becoming more and more uninhabitable because of our addiction to oil.

»  “Bush used that line recently,” Vonnegut adds. “I should sue him for plagiarism.”

» Things have gotten so bad, he says, “people are in revolt again life itself.”

(...)

» As for making money, “war is a very profitable thing for a few people. Jesus used to be so merciful and loving of the poor. But now he’s a Republican.

» “Our economy today is not capitalism. It’s casino-ism. That’s all the stock market is about. Gambling. »

Mis en ligne le 12 mars 2006 à 13H15