Harrison

  I've noticed that in the story's setting Earth's future has a tyrant in power. This tyrant makes a series of handicaps  putting humanity below her.  These impairments range from weighted sacks around the citizens' necks to masks to hide their faces.  Notably, this is supposed to make a perfectly equal society.  Unfortunately, as always, there is someone who's ideals are different and unrepressed.

  I find myself asking ,"How did such a person come into power?".   I can understand wanting to make all people equal but that doesn't make the idea right.  I believe something major had to transpire before the tyrant Diana Moon Glampers came to power.  A probable war was on the horizon because humans are followers by nature and therefore would follow Diana.  A possible reason the tyrant's reign is still in power is because no citizen can match her at this point.  The enforced handicaps prevented the people from a military uprising.