Picture a perfect world, now imagine everyone in that world exactly the same. You're probably asking yourself "how could everyone be exactly the same? ", well, in a short story called "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. everyone is handicapped making everyone equal, meaning they cannot think because they have sensors in their ears, and weights on their arms and legs so they're not too strong. The main lesson in Kurt Vonnegut's story is that perfection isn't perfect.
How would you feel if every 20 seconds you heard blaring sounds that make you unable to think, not only would it be annoying to you, but to others who don’t have it they would be getting mad because you don’t know what they’re talking about. Already the flaws are showing, in this oh-so perfect plan. You know how there are those people who are huge and muscular on the football teams and are always scoring touchdowns, well in this ‘perfect’ world there are no all-stars, because that would be unjust.
You're probably thinking "Wow this future is messed up, and there is almost no hope for everyone." Well there is hope, and it comes in the form of a 14 year old boy named Harrison Bergeron. When Harrison makes his first entrance, everyone is so shocked because they are always surrounded by 'normal' people, so they over exaggerate how 'handicapped' he is. "The rest of Harrison's appearance was Halloween and hardware. Nobody had ever born heavier handicaps. He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H-G men could think them up. Instead of a little ear radio for a mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and spectacles with thick wavy lenses. The spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches besides.", said someone who was obviously over exaggerating at the sight of Bergeron.
Perfection isn't perfect, so as humans, making efforts to making everyone equal and perfect, isn't such a good idea, because our future might just end up like Harrison Bergeron's.
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