Hey guys,
A while ago I read a short story in my history class. This short story is fairly old, I believe it was written in the 1950's. It was about a "utopia", so to speak, where everyone was forced to be exactly the same as one another. (The story was a satire of communism, if I remember correctly) Anyone who is smart has to have a device in their ear to play sounds when they are thinking to disrupt them so that everyone is equally stupid. Everyone who is athletic has to wear weights all of the time so everyone is equally sluggish. Dancers, I believe, had to wear a device that would shock them at random so that everyone was equally uncoordinated. It was a pretty good story, and I would like to read it again. Does anyone know the name of it?
A while ago I read a short story in my history class. This short story is fairly old, I believe it was written in the 1950's. It was about a "utopia", so to speak, where everyone was forced to be exactly the same as one another. (The story was a satire of communism, if I remember correctly) Anyone who is smart has to have a device in their ear to play sounds when they are thinking to disrupt them so that everyone is equally stupid. Everyone who is athletic has to wear weights all of the time so everyone is equally sluggish. Dancers, I believe, had to wear a device that would shock them at random so that everyone was equally uncoordinated. It was a pretty good story, and I would like to read it again. Does anyone know the name of it?