Kurt Vonnegut on writing Harrison Bergeron.

KURT VONNEGUT: I was thinking in high school - you notice that some people can run a lot faster than you can. People are better looking than you. Some people can play musical instruments - how in the hell does he do that and everything. And there's something you can do. And so I thought, well, how funny it would be if the government finally decided that too many people were being made to feel unhappy. And I was thinking how funny if they would pass all these laws. If you could dance well, for instance, you'd have to wear sash weights tired around your ankles, you know what I mean? [laughs]

It turns out now it could be a political idea, although I never intended it to be, but the American right now has focused on political correctness in efforts to make people more equal.

I'm not the only source with crazy ideas. History has provided plenty of these - to name Nazism, Communism - because these are real science fiction ideas which have shaped life in a big way.