In the short story, Harrison Bergeron, the author, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. depicts an extreme egalitarian future for society based on the mistakes we are making today.
In the story, the parents of Harrison, George & Hazel, spend the entire time watching and discussing what they see on television. Anytime a possibly intelligent thought begins to pop into George’s head, he is quickly confused by a noisy disturbance produced by a mental handicap in his ear that the United States Handicapper General forces people of above average intelligence to wear.
While Vonnegut’s idea of the future may seem a little unusual, think about how often many of us have been distracted from a conversation or doing homework because some image or sound comes on the TV that grabs our attention and we either forget wh
The government’s actions to protect mankind in Harrison Bergeron end up turning them into emotionless robots who will never create, never imagine and never dream… but who will also never destroy.
In the movie we see that the National Administration Centre is deciding what people can and cannot watch so that they can control society in order to avoid anyone from getting any ideas that could destroy mankind or overtake government.
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