Blog post 1 – Rees Racho – February 3

^{A big part on why the story of Harrison Bergeron is so ironic is because of the way the go about equality. In the story, instead of supporting the people at the bottom and raising them up they instead bring down the intelligent and strong to lower levels, to what the government decides is “average”. Most people today when they think of equality they think of raising up the people on the bottom, doing thinks such as giving them education or many opportunities to go up in society but Vonnegut thought about it in a chaotic alternate way and showed how bad it would be in the story.}

^{By the end of the story Hazel and George completely forget all the events that just happened in front of them. The main part of the events was watching their son getting executed on live television but they completely forget not even a minute later. I personally think the author was trying to show how media can brainwash us and change our feelings through television easily and how prevalent it is in todays society. More and more people today are slowly losing trust in what they see in media and news because of “fake news” and similar things so I don’t think Vonnegut’s crazy dystopia will ever come to reality.}