Harrison Bergeron, a short story by Kurt Vonnegut

Posted by lionhearted on Friday July 02, 2010 @11:49PM
from the tnellen.com dept.

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

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Re:Harrison Bergeron, a short story by Kurt Vonnegut by thirsteh on Saturday July 03, 2010 @11:29AM (#1483904)

I don't think I need to mention 1984 by George Orwell, but you might be interested in the movie Equilibrium which has a similar theme: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/

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Re:Harrison Bergeron, a short story by Kurt Vonnegut by TrevorBurnham on Saturday July 03, 2010 @10:41AM (#1483844)

This isn't news, but it is a classic story about "equality" gone awry. Required reading.

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Re:Harrison Bergeron, a short story by Kurt Vonnegut by SecretAgentMan on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @09:53PM (#1493053)

I had to read this in 7th grade when we were doing a unit on Utopias, but had long since forgotten the title. I've tried many times to find it again after trying to describe it to people. Thanks so much for posting it!

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