Primitive Progress In Ayn Rand's Anthem

Primitive Progress The government that is in the book Anthem written by Ayn Rand knows about the past technological advancements made during the times before their current society, so they choose who makes the discoveries in their society. If every person were able to create and think of ideas as the main character in the book very much wanted to the society would be more advanced and the Council would have no control. Establishing the progression of science and technology is based on how a society wants to progress at their own rate and how they will move forward with ideas. In Anthem everyone is controlled in the society they are not allowed to think of new ideas or act upon them. To illustrate, as society develops new ideas and create new technology it new technology, it will evolve from the past advancements and will learn more from discoveries that are made, but the encouraging part of this is the fact anyone can relish with ideas not sit back and allow others to create of them first. This is a keen factor that contemporary society and Anthems has different. The totalitarian society that the book possesses takes control of Equality’s mind and others resisting and …show more content…
North Korea is supposedly communistic but studying the actions that have taken place, it is more totalitarian like that of Anthem. When learning about their society they shut off all of the country's lights except the capital’s every night at a specific time. North Korea has around 24 million people in poverty and those numbers are still growing, according to U.S. News.com. They refuse help from any other countries and rarely allow foreigners into their country. The society is under extreme totalitarianism that the people in poverty are basically forced into that lifestyle. In Anthem the Council controls everything that happens and force people into jobs that they choose not the