“Harrison Bergeron” is a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, about a boy who lived in a world where you were handicapped if you were born anything above average. Harrison is supposedly one of the strongest, smartest, tallest, and most attractive people on earth, and by consequence the most handicapped. Harrison doesn’t like being handicapped or told that he must perform under his capability, so when he escapes from jail for suspected plans to overthrow the government, he lets the whole world know just that.

The idea of the story is very clear in a sense that, they want to live in a world completely equal to one another; however, the idea itself is difficult to deem plausible. One of the main points of the human condition is that, every single human is flawed, the reason why any utopian society is most likely to never work in our civilization, humans will always contradict and rebel, as seen by Harrison Bergeron. They tried to create an artificial equal world by handicapping anyone above the lowest intelligence rate, efficiently stopping anyone from ever being able to strive or show potential they might carry, for they must always be seen as “normal” or get punished. No matter how hard the world tries to make everyone equal, everyone is different and will never be the same as one another. When people try to change that, we will never be able to get 100% cooperation. This short story shows that you will never be able to satisfy 100% of the population, you will always have people trying to make it change.