“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal.” This breathtakingly simple line comes from the beginning of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron.” The story is about the equalizing of the world. Transforming a place of unique faces and body types, of intelligence and ignorance, into a world where everyone is finally the same. Strong people are “burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot,” beautifully people are given hideous masks, and smart people have “a little mental handicap radio” that sends blasts of uncomfortable sound through your mind when you think. Is this what we desire? Is a life of equality not a burden? Are we not made different for a reason? Vonnegut’s tale…