sclafani@CMU-PSY-A (10/15/85)
From: sclafani@cmu-psy-a (michael sclafani) Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut, presents a world where all people are equal. Equality is the lowest common denominator. Announcers have speech impediments, athletes are crippled, and so on. Anyone gifted in an area is "handicapped." Beautiful people wear ugly masks, strong people have weights tied on to them, etc. Harrison Bergeron carries the handicaps of three people, and is still not quite "equal." It's the sort of short story that high school english teachers like to use.