... are appalling. Society is stagnant because those smart enough to develop new technology, medicine, and literature have been permanently handicapped, exiled, or killed. Television announcers have speech impediments, dancers cannot dance, musicians are tone deaf, and families lose all purpose, continuity, compassion, and love. A good example of this is Harrison Bergeron's story. Harrison escapes from an asylum that was meant ... a believable but purely imaginary world such as one finds in Lewis Carroll's, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). He frequently resorts to dystopias (negati...

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