All of
these options except B are perfectly plausible answers. However, I would argue that D best
expresses the underlying message of "." All too often, we take our individuality, our
uniqueness, what makes us special, for granted, preferring instead to submerge ourselves into
collective wholes. Sometimes it's necessary, even desirable to do this. But in doing so, we must
never lose sight of our individuality.
Unfortunately, that's precisely what
seems to have happened in the dystopian society depicted in "Harrison Bergeron." One
gets the impression that the government was only able to implement its policy of radical
equality, dragging everyone down to the same level by the imposition of handicaps, because
people no longer valued their individuality. They'd developed such a collectivist mindset that
the government was able to put in place such a frightening program of social engineering,
imposing total uniformity on society through the crudest means possible.
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