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Kurt Vonnegut wrote this story before the Bush administration. However, in his final years, he was highly critical of George Bush Jr. This story could have been a parody of how recent politicians have been able to package themselves as people who actually care about other people.
If they cared about you, they wouldn't cut taxes for rich people.
But by bringing people down physically and emotionally had been portrayed in the story, but it was the illegality of thinking that made it so shockingly familiar.
I agree with nathan. The trends described in the story don't have to be identical like the practices in the U.S. but the symbolism about them is what makes them "shockingly familiar" to all of us.
I agree with Nathan and Amy. All these trends are a parody of politics. They are not exactly the same but they are so similar that they are "shockingly familiar", like Amy said. There are so many actions in this story that could allude to different events.
Some recent news I heard just a while ago states that the state of California will be giving scholarships to illegal immigrants that moved from Guatemala or Mexico.
This proves that the government right now is trying to equalize the people. California state in this case is trying to make people more intellectual. It will only be a matter of time when they don't have enough money to make everyone better, so they will start "handicapping" everyone.
In "Harrison Bergeron", Vonnegut is trying to describe the corrupted government and political strategy and power in the current time. He is trying to show in how people could use fancy and soft words to explain their harmful or dubious strategies. He is also trying to make people understand that the equalization could simply not be faire to another person just because it is faire for another. "Handicup" could also refer to those people who are just simply different for you. A good example would be race.
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I agree with Amy and Nathan, that the practices are not identical to those of the states, but the way they symbolize things are.
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