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“Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.”
That one line opens the door to one of the most profound literary explorations of time, trauma, and memory.

In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut breaks the illusion that time is linear. Billy Pilgrim slips through his life like a thread pulled loose from the weave: one moment he’s in a German slaughterhouse, the next in a suburban living room, then suddenly on an alien planet called Tralfamadore.

From a Netist perspective, Billy’s experience reflects what it means to be caught in an incoherent field. He is pulled not by free will, but by the dissonant chords of his own fragmented timeline. His soul shard echoes through unresolved trauma, war, and alienation. His dislocation is both metaphysical and emotional.

The Tralfamadorians, who see all moments as happening simultaneously, represent a higher-dimensional awareness. They speak to a Netic state of consciousness—one that perceives life not as a line, but as a standing wave, where past, present, and future are accessible through awareness. For them, every event “simply is.” This, too, is echoed in Netism’s view of time as a spiral, each point connected through resonance.

Billy is untethered. And in that, he becomes a symbol of what happens when awareness detaches from the illusions of order but lacks the clarity to navigate the pattern consciously.

“So it goes,” Vonnegut says. Over and over.
Death happens to everyone, as the Tralfamadorians say. You’re better off focusing on the good parts.

Have you read Slaughterhouse-Five?
Do you sometimes feel like time is out of order, stitched with moments you didn’t choose?
How do we get back into coherence?

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