"Are Tralfamadorians a Reflection of Humans?"

I recently read a blog post called "Ignoring the Dreadful"by Viviana Correa. She wonders about the resemblance between Tralfamadorians and humans, and criticizes the human race. "There's nothing bad about humans", many believe. Others think "Well, we do damage our surroundings, but whatever. What is there to do?" Viviana believes the opposite.

"I believe Vonnegut is trying to show us how irrational we are, when we think we humans know everything, and are more important than anybody else. Therefore, we try to change things, stop them, and create them without worrying about the consequences these actions might bring to the entire planet."This is said on Viviana's blog. I completely agree with her. Tralfamadorians might be a way to demonstrate humans' barbarity and foolishness. We believe we're so smart and the world is made for our amusement and benefit. So we decide to proper and leave everything behind: our trash, those species we endanger, damaged ecosystems, etc.

We pollute our Earth every day. But it's for us, the greatest species of our Earth, why does it matter? Right? No. Who are we to pollute our earth like this? Yeah, we are smart. But does this give us the right to ruin our earth? After all, we are not the only ones living on this world. There are mammals, amphibians, carnivores, omnivores, trees, flowers, and many other types of living things that are being killed because of us and our constant need for money.

What if we were the animals? Then it would seem unfair, wouldn’t it? But since we are people it doesn’t matter much, does it? Viviana describes how Billy was kept naked in a zoo for Tralfamadorians to behold all the time. This seems ridiculous and irrespecutful to many readers. But don't we do the same? We just frown upon it because in this case, it's a human who's in the cage.

Viviana also mentions the Tralfamadorians' point of view ("...they tell Billy Earthlings should start ignoring awful times and concentrating on good ones.") and admits that it is hard for humans to ignore the bad things. I completely agree with her, though I didn't realize so as I read. Many of us might hav a million things to smile about and small problem. Do you think this would make us happy or sad? It would be expected for us to feel happy in these cases. However, most of us focus on the problem and ignore all other things we could be smiling about. Just like Viviana and the Tralfamadorians say, this should halt. We should ignore the bad things. Smile because of all those good things, instead of looking bad at all those nagging problems.