Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut “The story is a satire, a parody of an ideological society separated from the reality of common sense” (Townsend). As Townsend stated, Kurt Vonnegut satirizes society in his fictional short story Harrison Bergeron, who in their society attempted to conform through the people's disabilities, similarity to an authoritarian government and technology, while the people will do it. The kind of thing government authority saw both mimics and satirizes the way Americans came to view the enemy (the Soviet Union) during the Cold War, which was near its climax of distrust and fear in the late 1950s and early 1960s. attempt to improve the economy Karl Marx, a philosopher, invented the philosophy of communism. A communist government plans and controls the economy, but there is also an authoritarian government that has complete control. Often the authoritarian claims that he will progress toward a higher social order in which people share all goods equally. Although Harrison Bergeron's citizens are similarly "equal in all respects" in economics, they are also "equal in all respects" in terms of physical characteristics (Vonnegut). In which people know they are unequal and that is why they have disabilities. A handicap as stated in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, in a "race or contest [an] artificial advantage is given or a disadvantage imposed upon a [person] to equalize the chances of winning" (Me...