At the very end of Slaughterhouse Five´s fourth chapter, when Billy is traveling aboard the Tralfamadorian flying saucer, he begins an interesting conversation with one of the aliens. When he asks where he is, the Tralfamadorian does not give him a direct answer but rather expresses how amused he is about human curiosity. He argues that where he comes from, people just let it be. They don´t ask questions, just live the moment that life presents itself with. I am a supporter of letting things be once in a while, but what the Tralfamadorian was proposing was, basically, a world with no science or philosophy. These are the two ways with which we try to explain our world, and it has led to interesting theories and possibilities. I can´t imagine a world without explanations or wondering, where our origins and our future don´t matter, where nature has no explanation and the stars are never studied. There has to be a balance between letting it be and knowing exactly how it is, or else we end in ignorance or in an obsessive desire to know everything.
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