Harrison Bergeron: What Does It Mean To Be Modern?

What does it mean to be modern?

We all have different ideas of what it means or what is modern. From the way we dress to the way we act or eat or how we handle situations. Modern for many means to be ahead of the rest to have the newer things in life. For others it's finding new ways to make people equal. Much like in the Film Harrison Bergeron, the film this 14 year old boy is taken from his family. In this modern time no one is stronger than anyone else, no one is smarter,uglier, prettier, or just flat out better than anyone else.

The film is about a boy who realizes what the government is doing is wrong, without people being free, that we could create so much more stuff for the world, people like harrison bergeron they are too smart for the handicaps, so the government takes them away to either have them help the government or if they refused have there memories erased
Well it really does depend on you, doesn't it? Modern for many would be having cars that levitate or fly or having so much new technologies or stuff like that, or having self serving restaurant or holographic phones or