Trapped in Amber

"That is a very Earthling question to ask Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?" pg 77. Billy is kidnapped by Tralfamadorians, something he had known would happen since before, since he has visions of future and past events of his life. During his kidnap he asks why it was him the one that was kidnapped, and they answer the previous maxim. It takes to the fact about how we as humans want to know the why of everything. We are constantly fighting among how things are supposed to be in order to learn its secrets, but we also lack the ability to know the real truth of everything. We can only know the partial truth of things around us, since we generalize and group things into categories which only appear true to us as humans, as first mentioned by Friedrich Nietzsche. That's the reason we keep wanting to know more, since we cannot find the real truth behind everything that exists, existed, and will exist. Here the captor of Billy explains to him that a moment simply is, so why ask more questions that will deform the reality into something humans can categorize? Even if we were able to name absolutely everything that existed, it would be impossible for us to keep track of everything, and complicate things even more. Even more interesting is how you can also compare it with the flashbacks and future sights Billy has about his life. Since Billy is able to look through his life and know how things will turn out to be or were before, it gives Time a symbolical meaning of not meaning anything. Why something turns out to be something else is reality, and should not be considered something past, but something that triggers an action that keeps living on. The example he uses is a bug trapped in amber, explaining the significance of it being there because it simply is, and that there is no way of explaining or asking why that bug was the one being trapped in there, but rather know things simply are because that's how things are supposed to be, and no human logic is able to categorize or fully explain why things turned out to be that way. Billy turns out to be a bug trapped in amber, living not a moment in time, but "cursed" to stay in a moment which turns out to be his entire life.