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To: karpov

What was the Kurt Vonnegut story where everybody had to carry/wear handicaps?

2 posted on 02/17/2023 10:57:18 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (eleutheromaniac)

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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Harrison Bergeron - that was it. Depressingly prophetic.

4 posted on 02/17/2023 10:59:14 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (eleutheromaniac)

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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Harrison Bergeron.

5 posted on 02/17/2023 10:59:15 AM PST by hellinahandcart

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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Vonnegut’s story was about envy. If he was alive now he would apply his story and its lessons to Equity, the mask which the spirit of envy wears today.

23 posted on 02/17/2023 11:17:07 AM PST by spirited irish ( )

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To: Chad C. Mulligan

You're thinking of Harrison Bergeron

https://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

32 posted on 02/17/2023 11:56:29 AM PST by TomEd (Her şey hazır! Buyrun, şölene!)

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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Harrison Bergeron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

[btw, wiki lies: there’s NOTHING “satirical” about the story ...

full text of story:

https://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

45 posted on 02/17/2023 2:21:47 PM PST by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)

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To: Chad C. Mulligan

51 posted on 02/18/2023 4:54:43 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

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