Dystopian Author Kurt Vonnegut on this Day in History

This day in history: Writer Kurt Vonnegut was born on this day in 1922. My favorite work of his is Harrison Bergeron, a dystopian and prophetic short story about a society where everyone is fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General enforces the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic.

"Kurt Vonnegut, in his short story 'Harrison Bergeron,' explores the logical end to equity — the use of state power to effect ostensibly equal outcomes in society. He depicts a world where everyone must be handicapped to the lowest common denominator so that no man, woman, or child has a competitive advantage over another. Whenever I see the 'Office of Equity and Inclusion' on a college campus, or BLM signs demanding equity, this story leaps unbidden to the mind." Source

The book starts off: "THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General."

Harrison Bergeron is similar to another novel released a year earlier in 1960 called “Facial Justice” by L.P. Hartley about a society that has banished privilege and envy, to the extent that people will have their faces surgically altered in order to appear neither too beautiful nor too ugly.

Jordan Peterson reads Harrison Bergeron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvDYuj1Bs6Y

Read Harrison Bergeron
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

The Unfairness of Equal Outcomes

https://fee.org/articles/the-unfairness-of-equal-outcomes/

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