Comments on: Harrison Bergeron as the personification of the internet child

By: Self-superempowerment at FactoryCity

Self-superempowerment at FactoryCity — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:28:30 +0000

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By: Cebelbrating the first drunk post of 2006 at FactoryCity

Cebelbrating the first drunk post of 2006 at FactoryCity — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 08:54:27 +0000

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By: FactoryJoe

FactoryJoe — Sat, 14 May 2005 00:19:30 +0000

Well, I’m primarily pointing out and reiterating Steven’s point that the environment in which you are raised has a great amount of influence on how you will behave later in life. It’s not that “being online” necessarily will enable you to break the chains any better than anyone else — only that when you’re made more aware of the vast world out there sooner in your pre-adolescent life, it seems less likely that you’ll truly ever be chained down to mediocrity.

Take open source for example. It’s an incredible meritocracy where the best ideas put forward are often adopted by the community for the benefit of the whole. If this were not the case and everyone was deprived of expressing their natural talents, the community would be very boring indeed! Instead, it represents a myriad array of ideas, beliefs and viewpoints that are all worthwhile.

So it’s not about the internet enabling anything per se. It’s about what having the kind of access and connections to the world means in how today’s children are being raised and socialized.

By: Saara

Saara — Sat, 14 May 2005 00:07:32 +0000

But in “Harrison Bergeron,” handicapping kept Harrison in chains until he broke out of them. He was the only one in the story who would.

I don’t understand the connection between the internet and the story. Are you saying that the internet is a way of breaking chains that have been placed on previous generations, and that only those who use the internet will be able to break those chains in the future?

By: FactoryCity » Blog Archive » Harrison Bergeron cited in case against

Thu, 12 May 2005 18:03:58 +0000

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Harrison Bergeron cited in case against

It seems like my good friend Harrison Bergeron is being invoked in an effort to increase school funding allocation in Kansas [...]