This is a cartoon about a possible scenario that may have occurred in the creation of the "Handicap System" seen in the short story Harrison Bergeron. It shows what I think is one of the many problems with the system: It is clearly a bad idea, but anybody who is smart enough to realize this is handicapped, and thus unable to think of a solution. It is a vicious cycle of the worst kind. It also uses the classic humor element of exaggeration. After all, the earphones in the story went off only every 20 seconds, but here the guy is getting cut off by it after every word. Exaggeration can also be used to prove a point about something.
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