Granfalloons and Cognotypes
A karass according to Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is a collection of people whose destinies are karmically interconnected. A granfalloon is a false karass, an artificial category containing people who may or may not be karmically interconnected. Granfalloons Kurt Vonnegut introduced a concept of meaningless social groups in Cat’s Cradle (1963). The granfalloon is an open…