Hocus Pocus | Social Concerns
In Hocus Pocus Vonnegut again invokes his familiar themes of technology out of control and humankind's puny efforts to master it, but in this novel a much more specific and contemporary failure of the big brain creatures is noted: racism. Blacks and Hispanics, the traditional targets of this psychological and social disease, are now joined by the Japanese, whom Americans resent because of their growing economic dominance.
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