Harrison Bergeron

     "Harrison Bergeron" is a short story about how people in a society are made equal. Not everybody in this society is equal, so the government added 3 amendments. These amendments basically requires all citizens to be handicapped if they have an unfair advantage over the average intelligence. For example if you have better eyesight than the average, you would be required to wear blurry glasses give you the average or below the average eyesight. If you are smarter than everyone else, then you would have to wear an earpiece that would distract you from using the full potential of your brain and make you average or below the average intelligence.
     This story reminds me of how some governments try to micromanage their citizens, but to an extreme. If this short story had to be described in one word, I would choose grey because there is no diversity in this society. I would hate it if this society really existed because there is no emotion, personality and diversity in this bland society. I don't think anything would get done in this society and there would be no new inventions. Overall I enjoyed reading this short story and I like how the author was thinking out of the box.