Or: Being There
(A sequel to last night's Lyric Intelligence )
William Deresiewicz reviews Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 novel Player Piano :
The novel’s prescience is chilling. Six years before the left-wing English
sociologist Michael Young published The Rise of the Meritocracy ,
a dystopian satire that coined that now-ubiquitous final word,
Vonnegut was already there.
Related material:
Intelligence Test , Gombrich, and, more generally, Stupidity.
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