‘Harrison Bergeron’: An Eerily Prescient Dystopia

Actor Sean Astin presents an award during the 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on March 9, 2003. Kevin Winter/Getty Images

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“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.”