Literacy Elements

So far, in the short stories that we've read, the more we learn about literacy narratives, the more I understand the stories. In one of the recent stories we read, Harrison Bergeron, it seems like the setting really influences the story as a whole. It talks about how in the future everyone is the same intelligence, and that if you are above average intelligence, you had to wear this thing called a "mental handicap radio" in your ear. It would make noises that would keep you from having an advantage from others.
In present day today, people look at above average intelligence as a very unique thing. Sometimes you learn new things from them, like something they might invent or even discover about the world. We don't think of them as mutant forms of human beings, we look up to them. In the story, when Harrison escapes prison and goes to the set where they were filming the ballerinas, it talks about how people took out their radios from their ears to be the intelligence they actually were. But then Harrison and his empress were killed, and everyone was told to put their radios back on and go back to their average intelligence. Then, after it all happened, the mother and father of Harrison completely forgot what even happened! It scares me to think of the future like that, because it makes the future sound very dark and sad. I hope that in the future we keep looking at people with above average intelligence as a positive thing,  not negative.