Harrison Burgeron and the avalanch that followed

Wow, so class really pissed me off today. Here was a story that I actually quite liked and had the effect of making me feel pathetic and yet thankful for the shity yet interesting dog eat dog world we live in. But seriously. There were so many gaps in the story that you could...I don't even know what you could do. I'm out of analogies.

Some people need to think before they speak and stop attempting to make themselves sound smart by talking. Yeah, make sure you have something that's actually interesting and thought provoking because it came from some previously provoked thought, or keep your trap shut!

(I'm a currently listening to a song that's called Anthem and this guy is singing about his nation and "let petty nations tear themselves apart", and it just feels very patriotic and rebellious, I don't know why, but thinking about it in the context of Harison Begeron makes me kind of happpy. Okay, now Cell Block Tango is on.)

Anyway, the gaps in the story just kind of made me angry. How were they educated? I mean I'm sure that if you took two people and educated them, except one was educated to a kindergarden level and the other one finished her masters in college, they would totally be on different levels, but they would have each had the capacity to do both. So did they just stupify teach them? They had to learn how to read, you don't pop out of the womb with the ability to read, unless at that point it just becomes something that people can naturally do, which would be pretty cool...

What about equality for sexes? There was still the distinction of who was a man and who was a woman. So how could that be fair? Would sexism not exsist anymore, because I doubt that it could simply just, poof, be gone. And what about racsim? Would people be made white, or black or whatever color as long as it was consistent? How did that work?

I pretty sure homosexuals were far beyond the state of mind of the writer on who's name I just brainfarted on. What about that? Would they be erradicated just like all the naturally handicaped? Those who were below the average line? They can't just delimb people, and there are always going to be the strange unexplainable cases that it just isn't possible to make anyone like that. So do they get killed? Obviously the government has no problem just shooting and killing someone.

I would really like to see how the rest of the world was functioning. Are they all like we are now and wondering and laughing at how shitty the American's have it now? Would they try and save us? Or did they put us there? That's the place of the American's?

There's so much to think about! Ah! I could create my own bloody story to fill in the gaps but I would drive myself mental because it's just not possible. And that's what the writer was trying to say, but yet then there's the reason he wrote it. Another thing about the writer, I thought of this question in class but didn't want to say anything more anymore becuase I was beyond fuming at that point and it wouuldn't have been coherent, the fact that there was a woman in such a high place. Did he think that having women in higher government positions was a way to get into a society like that? I just sort of picked up on a bit of sexism. But then again as a lesbian anything seems like an attack on women. I don't know. I feel better now. It's Raining Men is playing now, Aretha makes me happy.