I found this particular short story to be disturbing. It was entertaining, yes but twisted in weird ways. The weirdness began with the paragraph. It's impossible for everyone to be equal. The world just doesn't work like that. Next was finding out what it meant to be "average". You had to be basically mentally retarded and lacking in any sort of athletic skill. The United States is equalized by the "Handicapper General" in the most unorthodox of ways. With blaring sounds for the intelligent and bags and sheets of metal for the athletic. Family's can hardly remember each other and those who break the rules are eliminated.
Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote this story in 1961, had a very queer idea as to what life would be like in 2081. Was that the general consensus in 1961 or was the author juust as weird as the story he created? Though this story was entertaining and funny could it really be a look into the future?
I agree that this was a very disturbing story, certainly not one of my favorites.
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