Firstly, dystopian authors make the commentary that societies are dystopian when people fall in line through the use of propaganda. Kurt Vonnegut, the esteemed dystopian writer, wrote the short story “Harrison Bergeron”. Within “Harrison Bergeron” exists a completely equal and unified population. In this world, nobody is allowed to be greater than or less than one another. Importantly, to accomplish this, the government has imposed extreme limitations on human rights and liberties. This absolute equality, however, is never questioned by the general population, as they have been brainwashed by propaganda into believing their system is best. When George Bergeron, the father of the titular character Harrison Bergeron, tries to explain why one shouldn’t try to free themselves from their system, he says, “If I tried to get away with it, then other people’d get away with it-and pretty soon we’d be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else” (Vonnegut
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