The Frightening Future Darkness leads to truth. Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, focuses on a curious character who slowly discovers the hidden secrets of The World Council, symbolically named Equality 7-2521. His bravery shines as he breaks laws and creates a new invention, light. The World Council of Scholars has let him down, and makes Equality feel foolish. He uses a substantial amount of intelligence and the result is to be cut down. Equality escapes into the Uncharted Forest, which no one has stepped foot into, and creates a new life with his love Liberty. But living in a formidable society for most of his life, shows what The World Council has been hiding. The totalitarianism community changed their lives. It destroys the inventions of technology, and ignores the natural science Earth brings their society. Adolf Hitler once quoted, “The government is lucky that people never think.” The Jewish religion had been discriminated and murdered for a “benefit” of Germany. Hitler and his control delineates the society Equality grew up in. In Anthem, after the Unmentionable times, the World Council has taken total control over their citizens. Relating to Hitler’s quote, the Council does not want any subject to have emotions or thoughts; it is mandatory to
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Technology has changed the 21st century for all humans. It is an everyday necessity. From the inventions of smart phones, computers, and all electronics, the world is surrounded by updates. To have our country demand to go off the grid, will result to half of our population to rebel, as Equality has. The World Without Technology article states, “ the Paleolithic era when technology was scarce and humans lived primarily surrounded by things they did not make.” Humans were once capable to live the world technologically primitive, eventually we might have to. The more the century progresses, the decrease in government control has
Technology has changed the 21st century for all humans. It is an everyday necessity. From the inventions of smart phones, computers, and all electronics, the world is surrounded by updates. To have our country demand to go off the grid, will result to half of our population to rebel, as Equality has. The World Without Technology article states, “ the Paleolithic era when technology was scarce and humans lived primarily surrounded by things they did not make.” Humans were once capable to live the world technologically primitive, eventually we might have to. The more the century progresses, the decrease in government control has