Dystopian Equality: The Martyrdom of Harrison Bergeron
“The year was 2081 and everyone was finally equal.” So begins Kurt Vonnegut’s incredible dystopian short story, Harrison Bergeron. The short, fictional piece prophetically depicts the extremes to which an authoritarian government might go in order to create a society in which each and every individual is “equal” to all others on every conceivable plane. […]