Collectivist societies can’t advance because they enforce everyone to think the same way. For example in the text when Equality tried to show the world council of scholars his new idea for a light source this is all they had to say in response to his idea “What is not thought by all men cannot be true… What is not done collectively cannot be good” (Rand 73). This shows that even when Equality created something that could’ve been helpful and innovative they still rejected his idea because he went against their classic collectivist ideals to make it. This indicates that they have embedded the idea in people’s minds that everyone needs to work together in order to create something that will be useful and beneficial in the society. This demonstrates
