Posted on 08/24/2010 11:26:23 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
I was looking for something else and came across the full text of Harrison Bergeron. It is more timely than ever. I thought some here might appreciate the link.
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
Good story.
I read it in Hgh school.
Tammy Bruce plays the Handicapper General.
http://tammybruce.com/2010/01/tammy-movie-2081-coming-out-on-dvd.html
I saw the movie starring Sean Astin during the 1980’s. It was great.
Can’t believe this came from Vonnegut. He was a leftist. (But maybe sane)
I remember reading this in high school.
Vonnegut was an anti-authoritarian leftist. Harrison Bergeron is about when authoritarianism and egalitarianism meet in the extreme. I believe Vonnegut was in the late stages of losing his mind when he got pretty famous for speaking out against Bush and praising terrorists.
My favorite thing from him was one of his rules of short story writing, "Start as close to the end as possible." The other was him showing up in Rodney Dangerfield's "Back to School" as himself when Dangerfield's character hired Vonnegut to write a paper on for him on one of Vonnegut's books. The paper got him an F because according to the teacher whoever wrote it knows nothing about Vonnegut.
The movie was okay, but at most I would say it’s “loosely inspired by” Harrison Bergeron. It didn’t deserve to keep the name.
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