Bokononist thought essay

Bokononist thought essay The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon is titled “What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Give the Experience of the Past Million Years?” The Fourteenth Book only consists of one word: “Nothing.” In this essay I will be explaining what this means. I will also include the Cruel Paradox of Bokononist thought, the idea of a granfalloon, and the viciousness and stupidity of humanity. The fourteenth book of Bokonon means how anyone can hope the world to have a good future with all the examples of humanity’s stupidity and viciousness in the past million years. By stupidity and viciousness he means all the unreasonable and unneeded war and cruelty. The Thoughtful Man could predict that humanity will eventually kill each other off because of the past examples of their stupidity and cruelty throughout history. If we take a past event like the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What would happen if the armies in all the nations would launch an Atom Bomb towards each and every country, that would mean the end of humanity on earth.
An example of the cruel paradox of bokononist thought is: "Midget, midget, midget, how he struts and winks,
For he knows a man's as big as what he hopes and thinks!"
This shows how cruel bokononists really are. They are saying that the midget can think that he is as tall as his hopes and dreams but he cannot hide the fact that he is a midget. Bokononism is a religion in Cat's Cradle made by a man named Bokonon. Bokonon could see that humanity could not live by truth so he made a religion based on lies that humanity could live contently by. The cruel paradox of Bokononist thought is to make people feel better about themselves by feeding them lies and not seeing what they really are but the Bokononists can and they just sit back and watch. Throughout the end of the book Newt Hoennikker says :" see the cat?, see the cradle?" When the whole idea of something being there is wrong