A sardonic social observer who wrote to warn and connect.
Kurt Vonnegut was a quintessential prairie-dog: a writer and wit who used dark humor and biting satire to comment on the absurdities of human society, from the firebombing of Dresden in *Slaughterhouse-Five* to the hollow consumerism of postwar America. Prairie-dogs communicate for a living, and Vonnegut's entire career was built on the idea that language and storytelling are the essential tools for holding a community together — or exposing why it's falling apart. His signature sign-off 'So it goes' captured his blend of resignation, irony, and deep communal feeling that defines the prairie-dog personality.
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