2009 October

In Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron, a fictional couple living in a future where all have at last been made equal cope with the loss of their son Harrison to the authorities. Harrison has been carried away, probably for disagreeing with the very idea of equality which has him blinded and deafened by goggles and headphones, [...]

Spurred by the breakneck pace of technological progress at the end of the industrial revolution, world society as a whole struggled with the hitherto unforeseen issues of over-population and international statesmanship. Through the blood and fire of two world wars, the nascent issues of human rights and globalization came to dominate the world stage, while [...]