How Collectivism Is Used by Anthem’s Society
Collectivism is the practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it, with emphasis on groups rather than individual action or identity. Some collectivist societies want all things equal and leave no room for individual thought. Most people in a collectivist society would gladly go along with whatever the leaders say because they know best. Many authors have used the idea of collectivism for a books that uses collectivism as their main conflict of a book. One author named Ayn Rand wrote Anthem, a book which uses collectivism to rule their society. The concept of collectivism in Anthem is justified by the leaders who believe that an equal society, in which people have no …show more content…
When some laws are applied to the idea of collectivism in the real world they match up. China, for example, have laws that limit the amount of children a person has, or what religion people must practice because it would not be beneficial to the country have over a billion people. Even America has laws that state that children must go to school, or how adults have a jury duty that they have to attend, and that everyone has to have health insurance. Some political leaders, such as Barack Obama, believe in collectivism in leading their country. Barack Obama said that “we must heed the call to sacrifice and uphold our core ethical and moral obligation to look out for one another and to be unified in service to a greater good. Individual actions, individual dreams, are not sufficient. We must unite in collective action, build collective institutions and organizations.” This quote from Mr. Obama makes it sound as if we have to stick together as a group in order to make our country better. He says that individual actions and dreams are not enough. While looking at another one of Ayn Rand’s novels, The Fountainhead, it’s easy to see how they justify collectivism in their real world society. In the speech made by Ellsworth Toohey called “The Soul of a Collectivist” collectivism is present in their society. One part of his speech makes a remark about how “the thought of of each man will not be his own, but an attempt to guess the thought in the brain of his neighbor who'll have no thought of his own but an attempt to guess the thought of the next neighbor who'll have no thought- and so on, Peter, around the globe.” The villain in The Fountainhead is able to use this to make sure that everyone isn’t think about themselves, but instead his neighbor, which in that big of a scale would it would be easier to make everyone do the same thing. Because they
Collectivism is the practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it, with emphasis on groups rather than individual action or identity. Some collectivist societies want all things equal and leave no room for individual thought. Most people in a collectivist society would gladly go along with whatever the leaders say because they know best. Many authors have used the idea of collectivism for a books that uses collectivism as their main conflict of a book. One author named Ayn Rand wrote Anthem, a book which uses collectivism to rule their society. The concept of collectivism in Anthem is justified by the leaders who believe that an equal society, in which people have no …show more content…
When some laws are applied to the idea of collectivism in the real world they match up. China, for example, have laws that limit the amount of children a person has, or what religion people must practice because it would not be beneficial to the country have over a billion people. Even America has laws that state that children must go to school, or how adults have a jury duty that they have to attend, and that everyone has to have health insurance. Some political leaders, such as Barack Obama, believe in collectivism in leading their country. Barack Obama said that “we must heed the call to sacrifice and uphold our core ethical and moral obligation to look out for one another and to be unified in service to a greater good. Individual actions, individual dreams, are not sufficient. We must unite in collective action, build collective institutions and organizations.” This quote from Mr. Obama makes it sound as if we have to stick together as a group in order to make our country better. He says that individual actions and dreams are not enough. While looking at another one of Ayn Rand’s novels, The Fountainhead, it’s easy to see how they justify collectivism in their real world society. In the speech made by Ellsworth Toohey called “The Soul of a Collectivist” collectivism is present in their society. One part of his speech makes a remark about how “the thought of of each man will not be his own, but an attempt to guess the thought in the brain of his neighbor who'll have no thought of his own but an attempt to guess the thought of the next neighbor who'll have no thought- and so on, Peter, around the globe.” The villain in The Fountainhead is able to use this to make sure that everyone isn’t think about themselves, but instead his neighbor, which in that big of a scale would it would be easier to make everyone do the same thing. Because they