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Inquiry #1 Harrison Bergeron
When does control make one want to revolt?
Too much control always makes people want to revolt. In the story, the whole society in under the control of government, seems everyone used to the life without competition, most of them don’t like “everybody competing against everybody else.” But there is always someone wants to be better than others like Harrison Bergeron. When government find Harrison is different, they arrested him and gave him heavy shackles to restrict him. The way to make everyone equal is too cruel. Image if you want to show your talent, but they give you heavy handicap in order to let you “equal” the same as others. This action is getting into Harrison’s last nerve. So he started revolts, but he knew, it is impossible to change this society just by himself. So he makes a plan, to show all the people the cruel of this morbid society by his dead. All the people had seen the bad side of this society, when more and more people realize it’s impossible to make progress without competition. Then, it is time to revolt.
Technology is not the way to restrict people but should make society some porgresses. We need to take out the shackles to revolt, to make society better.