Personal abnormalities are manipulated by society to create an identical population in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s short story “Harrison Bergeron”. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s short story “Harrison Bergeron” correctly warns of stripping individualism because it leads society to a lack of personal expression. When personal abnormalities are taken creating an equal society, people have no sense of personality. All thoughts are manipulated by devices instructing people of acceptable and unacceptable thoughts based on society regulations. George, a man with an above average intelligence, observes a ballerina performance on his television and considers, “maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped. But he didn’t get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts” (Vonnegut Jr. 1). George’s ear radio that ‘scattered his thoughts’, destroys his personal opinion due to the societal guidelines thus blocking his personal identity. However, one might argue that citizens still exhibit p...