But, I am going to stick with the theme being what the dangers of total or forced equality are.
If you force everyone to be equal, then what kind of a nation are we? If everyone is the same, then it is no different then someone standing in a house of mirrors. Everyone if the same in every way, no one is anyone but the one person they are. Everyone would be one person in the sense that there isn't even more than one person. Just copies of one.
In Harrison Bergeron the beautiful must be masked, the strong must be weakened, and the smart must be desensitised. So, what would happen if someone was more ugly, weak, or stupid then everyone else?
In a world where there are no independent individuals, would everyone higher than them be dragged down to this one persons level? Can one person ever be exactly the same?
If you are only as strong as your weakest link, where is the weakest link?
What is the basis of comparison for equality? I mean, what is normal?
In the story, the higher officials weren't handicapped...They weren't masked, and they weren't desensitised.
So, this also would bring in another theme, the theme of a dangerous government. If thous certain people who are extraordinarily excellent aren't made normal, then where is the equality?!
There is no equality, only restraint. Then the government is not only forcing thous of lesser power to be equal, it is forcing them to be slaves! To be denied their rights to be human!
Because, Like the snowflakes, there are no two the same.
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