Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog

"And then is when Edison showed me what a great scientist he was. He was willing to face the truth, no matter how unpleasant it might be."

This quote really caught my attention, because it seemed like Vonnegut was warning his audience that truth isn't always positive and sometimes the things that we discover can be harmful to ourselves. Also, I thought that this short story showed how Vonnegut is unease about scientists and what they do. For example, the narrator says that he doesn't regard Edison as 'the great inventor.' Also, Vonnegut used to work for General Motors but didn't like it there, and this dislike for big powerful removed businesses is shown in his mentioning of Ford in this story as well. This story made me think that what if there are scientists out there that know something monumental about our society but have not told us. I think that the 'truth' presented in this story would have huge negative impacts on our world and shows how we have to be careful when looking for answers to all our worldly questions, because sometimes the answers that we get are not what we wanted.