Historical Anti-Tumblr Work: Harrison Bergeron

[Jaimas]

Years ago, I had to read this short story in high school. It covers a society in which SJWs have enforced everyone to have equal privilege. The intelligent are dragged down to the level of the stupid, the attractive the ugly, the able the disabled. It's a compelling and amazing work, and probably wasn't intended to be considered prescient to what some SJWs would love to see happen.

It is called Harrison Bergeron.

 

[AnOminous]

This is a great work.

It is also an example of why SJWs can be accurately described as being leftist without being liberal, progressive, or having any of the positive attributes associated with what they claim to espouse.

 

[Gensdupays]

Harrison Bergeron is a great work for so many reasons. It parodies dystopian fiction while simultaneously presenting its own views on the dangers of the topic. Harrison Bergeron not being the best person himself is almost as biting as the society he lives in.

 

[The Knife]

...except that Vonnegut was extremely approving of socialism and liberalism and "Harrison Bergeron" was more a satire of what Americans at the time thought that socialism was like.

 

[Hat]

...except that Vonnegut was extremely approving of socialism and liberalism and "Harrison Bergeron" was more a satire of what Americans at the time thought that socialism was like.

Still ends up being pretty accurate to what these SJW-types want to see happen in the world.

 

[100 Whole Bepis]

...except that Vonnegut was extremely approving of socialism and liberalism and "Harrison Bergeron" was more a satire of what Americans at the time thought that socialism was like.

Authors take the piss out of their own opinions all the time, especially Vonnegut. George Orwell was also a socialist and he still wrote stories about what would happen if it was taken too far or corrupted.

Harrison Bergeron takes the piss out of both sides, but also lines up nicely with what SJWs want to happen even if it is satirical.

EDIT: On second thought, there might be some issues with this. If everyone was equal, even forcibly so, the SJWs would have nothing to scream about. And as we all know they don't care about justice, even misguided justice like this. They care about feeling superior.

Still, bringing up Vonnegut is always good in my book.

 

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From all the people shitting up Twitter this morning, apparently that new MLP episode was based on this, even got a BASED ON A STORY BY in the credits apparently. Don't care to fact check as clicking a video related to MLP would kill me.

 

[Jaimas]

EDIT: On second thought, there might be some issues with this. If everyone was equal, even forcibly so, the SJWs would have nothing to scream about. And as we all know they don't care about justice, even misguided justice like this. They care about feeling superior.

That is because they see themselves as the Handicapper General. Note how they're pretty abled, but have no weights. No masks. No earphone.

 

[Gensdupays]

From all the people shitting up Twitter this morning, apparently that new MLP episode was based on this, even got a BASED ON A STORY BY in the credits apparently. Don't care to fact check as clicking a video related to MLP would kill me.

It was inspired by, not directly based on it. It had elements from other dystopian fiction, as well as a song inspired by WWII propaganda marches. Choice quotes from the episode include:

- "In Sameness, There is Peace"
- "Exceptionalism Is A Lie"
- "Conformity Will Set You Free"

Presented over a loudspeaker on a loop while they're in prison.

"You can't have a nightmare if you never dream."

I saw actually little reaction from the usual places, either they just don't care about the show anymore or don't want to bite bait. The few reactions I did see ranged from getting mad at the show to getting mad at fans for trying to draw connections between the villain and modern SJWs.

 

[XYZpdq]

From all the people shitting up Twitter this morning, apparently that new MLP episode was based on this, even got a BASED ON A STORY BY in the credits apparently. Don't care to fact check as clicking a video related to MLP would kill me.

Glancing at the start and end on dailymotion points to "no". Which is a shame, because pone flouncing around while BASED ON A STORY BY KURT VONNEGUT would be mostly hilarious.

 

[Hummingbird]

Harrison Bergeron is a great work for so many reasons. It parodies dystopian fiction while simultaneously presenting its own views on the dangers of the topic. Harrison Bergeron not being the best person himself is almost as biting as the society he lives in.

Of course. I always felt like there was a possibility he could become a tyrant. Given how he was automatically claiming the title of emperor and making decrees without regards to anyone else. So unless he can get over the abuse and issues of his past, he might create his own disutopia in the other direction.

 

[AnOminous]

Authors take the piss out of their own opinions all the time, especially Vonnegut. George Orwell was also a socialist and he still wrote stories about what would happen if it was taken too far or corrupted.

Harrison Bergeron takes the piss out of both sides, but also lines up nicely with what SJWs want to happen even if it is satirical.

Vonnegut may have been an ardent leftist, but he was always also an ardent individualist. He was criticizing trends in leftist thought that have always been there, although it is downright eerie how much they have taken the forefront recently.

I always found it somewhat funny that in some respects, Harrison Bergeron is what Ayn Rand would have written in an alternative universe where she could write.

 

[Jaimas]

Vonnegut may have been an ardent leftist, but he was always also an ardent individualist. He was criticizing trends in leftist thought that have always been there, although it is downright eerie how much they have taken the forefront recently.

I always found it somewhat funny that in some respects, Harrison Bergeron is what Ayn Rand would have written in an alternative universe where she could write.

I should not have laughed at this as hard as I did. Well-played, AnOminous.

 

[Linako 2.0]

That is because they see themselves as the Handicapper General. Note how they're pretty abled, but have no weights. No masks. No earphone.

Wait really? they identify as the general? I need a source on this.

 

[Jaimas]

Wait really? they identify as the general? I need a source on this.

One of the reasons that that Tumblr chimped out over the recent MLP episode was because it was an open take-down of cults of personality that espouse the bullshit that Tumblrites love. The episode may as well have been a G-rated counterpart of it because of it. The leader of the cult in the MLP episode still has her abilities, despite being MUH EQUALITY. Essentially, she sets it up so only she can be exceptional - exactly as almost every fucking SJW cult of personality does.

Harrison Bergeron's Handicapper General is, by all accounts, the same thing. She alone has no mask, no earphone, no weights. She is the counterpart to the MLP antagonist. She is how many of the so-called SJWs would see themselves if allowed, at the top of an architecture where no one is allowed to outshine them, where they alone are the sole deciding factor of everything in the universe.

Do you think the Tumblristas call themselves gods for the hell of it?

 

[Ification]

One of the reasons that that Tumblr chimped out over the recent MLP episode was because it was an open take-down of cults of personality that espouse the bullshit that Tumblrites love. The episode may as well have been a G-rated counterpart of it because of it. The leader of the cult in the MLP episode still has her abilities, despite being MUH EQUALITY. Essentially, she sets it up so only she can be exceptional - exactly as almost every fucking SJW cult of personality does.

Harrison Bergeron's Handicapper General is, by all accounts, the same thing. She alone has no mask, no earphone, no weights. She is the counterpart to the MLP antagonist. She is how many of the so-called SJWs would see themselves if allowed, at the top of an architecture where no one is allowed to outshine them, where they alone are the sole deciding factor of everything in the universe.

Do you think the Tumblristas call themselves gods for the hell of it?

I'm pretty sure the people working under her also have the privilege of no restraints. After all, it's kinda hard to catch law breakers when you've got a ten pound weight slowing you down.

 

[Jaimas]

I always thought that Harrison Bergeron was


I'm pretty sure the people working under her also have the privilege of no restraints. After all, it's kinda hard to catch law breakers when you've got a ten pound weight slowing you down.

That's actually an excellent point, Ification, well-said.

 

[100 Whole Bepis]

Do you think the Tumblristas call themselves gods for the hell of it?

Clearly you've never met the dietykin community that is alive and well on Tumblr, where people will ask their followers for offerings in return for good favours.

Good God do I wish I was kidding.

 

[Meowthkip]

Clearly you've never met the dietykin community that is alive and well on Tumblr, where people will ask their followers for offerings in return for good favours.

Good God do I wish I was kidding.

We got a thread on them but it's in the general Lolcow board.

 

[DirkBloodStormKing]

The leader of the cult in the MLP episode still has her abilities, despite being MUH EQUALITY. Essentially, she sets it up so only she can be exceptional - exactly as almost every fucking SJW cult of personality does.

It is almost as if SJWs don't want actual equality. They only want power for themselves. Kind of reminds me of George Orwell's Animal Farm in which the quote "All animals are equal. But some are more equal than others." That quote is exactly what SJWs believe, despite them claiming "MUH TREU EQUALETEH".