Harrison Bergeron

The short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most profound and thought provoking books I have ever read. In the story, society has deemed it fit to equalize all people through means of stunting the abilities of people above average. Over time this average goes down and society as a whole is lessened each time.

This book is so though provoking in the sense that there are questions yet to be answered about the society`s function, and also deeper questions such as morality, right, and wrong. A couple of level two questions that seemed imperative to me were things like how the society deemed the averages and who orchestrated it, because there must have been some form of higher intelligence to oversee the society`s operations. There were also the more moral question such as if the society was right to average out it`s population. Was it fair? These questions can`t necessarily be answered be answered but only opinionated. My opinion for both of these questions is no.