Harrison Bergeron Essay On Equality

What really is Equality? “Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.” Albert Einstein. There are no such things as a perfect society. As we see in the book “Harrison Bergeron”, written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, there is no such thing as a “perfect” world. In Their world was not equally even though they tried to make it seem like it was. Some people had handicaps that made them less equal because they had to carry extra weight. It was causing problems even though people did not know it. In Harrison Bergeron, there was a lot of things wrong with their equal society. One of the flaws in Harrison Bergeron is that they wanted everybody to be “equal” when that is not possible. They wanted everyone to have average intelligence, people who had a better then averaged were gave a handicap in there that is sent sound to them. They did not even want people to look better than each other, people who did have natural beauty had to wear masks “they were burdened with sash weights and bags with birdshots and faces were masked”. In today, all people are supposed to be equal when
The government had complete control over the people by giving them the handicaps and trying to teach them to be average and not allowing them to think for their selves. Nobody was better at anybody at anything, if they were they were given a handicap so everybody would still be equal. The people in the society did not have much control of what they wanted to do. “All the equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and the 213th amendment to the constitution. In the way that America is heading the government is controlling more and more of what people are doing. “Had a little handicap radio in his ear. It was tuned to a government transmitter. The government is gaining to much power in a negative way. I think the author was saying that soon in the future the government is going to completely control