Idiot's Delight
In 1976, in his novel Slapstick, Kurt Vonnegut describes the affluent parents of the main character as thus:
They were fabulously well-to-do, and descended from Americans who had all but wrecked the planet with a form of Idiot's Delight—obsessively turning money into power, and then power back into money again, and then money back into power again.
I read this book more than a decade ago and this quote, and the concept of the "idiot's delight", has echoed in my head continuously since then. It is an utterly apt and achingly appropriate description of the world we are experiencing in this moment.
Similarly in 1973's Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut utters another devastatingly appropriate quote.
Most of all, we hunger for symbols which have not been poisoned by great sins our nation has committed, such as slavery and genocide and criminal neglect, or by tinhorn commercial greed and cunning.
In making a guess, I would not call Vonnegut superhuman in his prescience. I would describe him as a student of human nature across the arc of history, an arc which is long and knowable and full of little boring idiots with aspirations of empty fabricated grandeur.