Reading the eulogies of Kurt Vonnegut in the MSM, including this one from The New York Times, one cannot help but be struck by the total lack of reference to his potent short story: Harrison Bergeron.
As many already know, Harrison Bergeron is a young man living in a futuristic America that has gone through a very tragic revolutionary period. A large number of people had been killed. In order to prevent another catastrophe from happening, some social engineering is implemented whereby the population is kept in a constant state of "under-development" and therefore, it is presumed, "equality":
