World's Full of Handicappers
The idea of a perfect society is so enrapturing to humans. Humans are always trying to come up with solutions and laws to create a perfect society. Dystopias are everywhere; In books, in movies, and even in the real world. The short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, the movie The Matrix, and the country North Korea are all considered dystopias. In every dystopia there is one recurring theme, freedom of thought is restricted in order for technology or an overpowering government to stay in control. .
In Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut the society is under corporate control. The government sets rules and restrictions that limit free thinking and individuality. This short story states, “He was required to wear it at all times. It was a tuned to a government transmitter”. In this short story people who are more beautiful than average or intelligent that the normal person are issued “handicaps” by The Handicapper General. These handicaps include: heavy sash weights and bags of birdshot pad locked around citizens neck, little mental handicap radios worn in ears at all times, and ugly masks to ensure no one feels …show more content…
The technology controls every aspect of human life. At one point Morpheus tells Neo, “as long as The Matrix exists the human mind will never be free”. Fabricating what humans are smelling, hearing tasting, seeing, and smelling. The technology has the humans, the beings that created them, under complete control and restricting their thoughts. This is happening because The Matrix would like to maintain control and if humans could think freely they would want their freedom back. The Matrix is equivalent to one big handicapper from Harrison Bergeron that restricts or controls everyone's life. If the Matrix allowed to humans to think freely a war would break out, therefore in order stay in domination of the human race they restrict free
The idea of a perfect society is so enrapturing to humans. Humans are always trying to come up with solutions and laws to create a perfect society. Dystopias are everywhere; In books, in movies, and even in the real world. The short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, the movie The Matrix, and the country North Korea are all considered dystopias. In every dystopia there is one recurring theme, freedom of thought is restricted in order for technology or an overpowering government to stay in control. .
In Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut the society is under corporate control. The government sets rules and restrictions that limit free thinking and individuality. This short story states, “He was required to wear it at all times. It was a tuned to a government transmitter”. In this short story people who are more beautiful than average or intelligent that the normal person are issued “handicaps” by The Handicapper General. These handicaps include: heavy sash weights and bags of birdshot pad locked around citizens neck, little mental handicap radios worn in ears at all times, and ugly masks to ensure no one feels …show more content…
The technology controls every aspect of human life. At one point Morpheus tells Neo, “as long as The Matrix exists the human mind will never be free”. Fabricating what humans are smelling, hearing tasting, seeing, and smelling. The technology has the humans, the beings that created them, under complete control and restricting their thoughts. This is happening because The Matrix would like to maintain control and if humans could think freely they would want their freedom back. The Matrix is equivalent to one big handicapper from Harrison Bergeron that restricts or controls everyone's life. If the Matrix allowed to humans to think freely a war would break out, therefore in order stay in domination of the human race they restrict free