In the short story, Harrison Bergeron by K. Vonnegut, The sacrifices made to preserve this society ″perfect″ were in vain because through the level it has proved that the ultimate equality is not a worthy objective to strive towards, as many people believe, but rather a harmful goal in both implementation and outcome. In the story it says that “It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains”. The society aimed to make all people equal by handicapping their exceptional skills. If someone thinks more deeply than others, they could put a ratio in their head so that when their mind wanders, a loud noise will distract them and cause them to lose their stream of thought. “ It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the emperor and the empress were d
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