Sunday, November 22, 2015

When I become King........................



.............everbody who spouts off about equality this and equality that will just have to go sit in a corner and read Kurt Vonnegut's masterful short story, Harrison Bergeron.  It begins:

The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal.  They weren't only equal before God and the Law, they were equal every which way.  Nobody was smarter than anybody else.  Nobody was better looking than anybody else.  Nobody wass stronger or quicker than anybody else.  All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

Follow the link to an on-line version of the whole tale.

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