"Why me?"
"That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?"
"Yes." Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it.
"Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."
Throughout the course of the novel, as Billy has become "unstuck in time," a source of power emerges over Pilgrim and his grasp on reality. As he develops a relationship with the Tralfamadorians, he learns that free will is a silly and meaningless concept, one that should be disregarded entirely. Billy, throughout his time traveling adventures, is presented as the quintessential common man. He is neither a hero or exceptionally brilliant at anything in particular. However, time does begin to serve quite the role in his life. When interacting with the Tralfamadorians, Vonnegut's cynical view of human nature is most definitely expressed. Billy believes as the Tralfamadorians do, and when the subject of war is breached, "even if the wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death."
My question, as previously defined, is How does someone of something ultimately exercise complete power over another individual?
Billy becomes powerless in fostering the destiny he would have preferred. He loses his faith in free will through his time traveling and all comes to naught. He even takes on the mantra, "so it goes," every time someone passes away. His indifference, I believe, is the result of his time travel, his loss with reality.
