@Bardic_Knowledge  
They know what it is sometimes, it’s just just when they do they hate it because it brings up something offensive and and ABSOLUTE face value seems to glorify it… until you look a few Planck lengths deep and see the truth

@Prometheus labs CEO  
I think he more meant that those groups would get pissy about the story because these days people seem to have a hard time telling what a “satire” is.

@Prometheus labs CEO  
I think he more meant that those groups would get pissy about the story because these days people seem to have a hard time telling what a “satire” is.

@Antonyourknee  
Value open mindedness And tolerance, by silencing all those that they see as opposing them, it makes peeeeeerrrrrfect sense… my brain has been replaced with A boxing glove

@Prometheus labs CEO  
As I think back to when I first read the story in high school and how token and rushed the teacher discussed it before moving on to the next story which made me dismiss it as just a weird text book blurb, I find myself appreciating how scarily close the story parrarels modern political movements. I imagine that publishing such a story today would probably get the author a lot of flak from certain social movements that claim to value open minds and tolerance.

@Bardic_Knowledge  
Oh yah, but I’m pretty sure he was still trying to show that talent cannot be silecenced. Either way he’d make a way better ruler than the handicapper general, if the fact that even a full headset constantly blasting sound couldn’t fully disrupt his mental progresses is any indication.

@Prometheus labs CEO  
Actually, he did try to declare himself emperor, and the most beautiful of the dancers (according to the ugliness of her mask) his empress, but the Handicapper General showed up and killed them both.

 
If you can’t bring someone up, bring everyone else down

@Antonyourknee  
He wasn’t trying to take over he was trying to show those watching that talent cannot be suppressed no matter how hard you try, but then the handicapper general blew his brains out, and thanks to everyone either being severely mentally disabled or having mental disruption devices they forgot seconds afterwards

I’d forgotten about that story, but yeah, that’s pretty much a perfect analogy.

seems ridiculous, but this is basically how america is run

@Antonyourknee  
I believe you’re talking about Harrison Bergeron. Which is precisely what this picture is referencing.

Diana Moon Glimmer

This episode remained me of a story where everyone in the world was artificially handicapped mentally and physically so everyone would be equal.Think one guy was watching TV and his son came in and tried to take over the world with his powers and then he flew with a ballerina and got shot by the director of handicaps who was a woman with a shotgun…it was a weird story.