... hundred years ago, "I do not think I know what I do not know" (27). Henry David Thoreau was also a major critic concerning the ability of the masses to logically decipher "truth" and an advocate of an individual's responsibility to democracy regardless of a possible societal backlash. Thoreau's affirmation of the validity of individuality is evident throughout his work entitled Walden and Civil Disobedience. Thoreau believed that the ... Vonnegut examines how responsibility is and is not taken for actions in his book Cat's Cradle. The theme of book revolves around an event which altered...

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