Beautiful people had to wear ugly masks. People not heavy enough had to wear handicap bags full of lead. Clever people had to wear a radio in their ear tuned to the government transmitter, which sent out sharp noises to keep people from taking advantage of their brains. It was a world where competition was the greatest of sins. I think that this view can be very easily related to modern society.
People try to eliminate racism, sexism, lookism, ableism, ageism.
Even the word speciesism starts to appear in modern dictionaries of Politically Correct language. When the power got into the hands of stupid people unfit for governing the country, they had to find a way to protect their position. Thus, their position of power was preserved. The result was that people lost their individuality, lost their humanity. I think it is very similar.