Hocus Pocus | Social Concerns

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.