Ayn Rand's Reinventing Government

Ayn Rand was truly a remarkable woman and accomplished an astonishing feat throughout her career and her philosophy continues to affect many people’s lives. Through her works of fiction and her essays later in her life she discovered a whole new philosophy, a philosophy for living on earth. This vision has inspired countless people to take charge of their own lives.

Ayn Rand’s ideology centralizes on the idea that total human individuality is absolute and is obtained only by means of reason, self-esteem, and total worship of virtues. Atlas Shrugged ideal hero, John Galt, is the major example of objectivism and its complex layers. He is the symbol of no guilt, no fear, no submission, and no doubt in the value of the mind. Henceforth, John Galt is the reality that lies behind any human; the use of reason and self-interest as the motor for the improvement of the world; and, in consequence, the natural right to live by the power of thinking.

We, the Society will form an order of how the society will stay and think as one. As we choose the steps of the future, we ask that we all accomplish what we are assigned to do. The future, we plan for. The present, we live for, and the past we will never speak of. We all have a job to do, and as we achieve them, we need to learn our ways there and back. Forget the past, and look forward to the future. We of all people need to respect and obey what we choose for society, to make it a place where we feel comfortable and safe. We all will establish to be in The Council of Scholars, the Home of the Peasants,The Palace of Mating, The Council of Vocations and more jobs. Though, we the people may be forgiven for

A perfectly “ideal” government is a part of all utopias, but it’s impossible to have unity no matter how hard society tries because everyone has a different definition of the “perfect government”. The World Council in Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem tries to achieve this by creating a collectivist society. However, the main character Equality was correct in disapproving the ideals of the Council and censures the collectivist society, because he discovers a new sense of freedom that contradicts the Council’s ideals.

After reading Ayn Rand’s Anthem, I was able to make multiple connections throughout the book. I noticed how much different themes in the book can relate to today’s society, or different government systems from all around the world. I initially started to compare and contrast the various humanities to the “Bill of Rights”, but I decided to look to see what other themes can be compared. I then decided to compare the two radically different worlds, The Great Rebirth and The Unmentionable Times: Drawing connections and finding things that set them apart from each other was definitely entertaining for me, but understanding which world is superior is a little harder.

In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, the City has numerous rules and controls. Most of these rules and regulations are to keep the people in peace and to keep their society running. The people of Anthem are taught these rules from a very young age and they fear the outcome of their transgressions. At the end of the book, Equality runs away because of his big transgression and the envisions creating a world. He would most likely not include any of those rules in his new world because he suffered in his life following those rules. Some of these rules were: writing down his thought without sharing it with his brothers, taking notice of a woman, he was more intelligent than his brothers.

In the book “Anthem” by Ayn Rand, there are a lot of rules and controls that they have in their society. In order to keep a clean and organized society they need to have those rules and controls. Why do these rules exist? What is their purpose? And will Equality have these rules in his society?

The City in the book Anthem by Ayn Rand has a plentiful amount of rules and controls that they use to keep the citizens in line. These rules exist for many reasons. All of the rules and controls have a purpose. And some of those rules and controls will be in the society that Equality 7-2521 envisioned creating.

In Anthem, a novel written by Ayn Rand, the citizens in the cities are burdened with many rules and controls, but the rules play a big part in their city. Their city strives to have equality and these rules and controls are what bring it to the citizens. The government is specific as to what all citizens are allowed to do and what they are not allowed to do. The main character, Equality 7-2521, struggles with the rules and controls and feels it would be better if the city was not equal, but fair. Towards the end of the novel, Equality 7-2521 discovers his true self and becomes strong, brilliant, and free. He escapes the world of rules and begins to create his new fair city.

Vision a lifestyle where one perceives it as a sin to comprehend data more efficiently than of one’s peers; a felony to long for things that others do not wish upon. Where floods of white tunics and austere minds obliterate the Earth. A colony built upon leaders who asphyxiate anyone from infatuation of any object or significant being; moreover, a world suffocating in collectivism. Through exasperated transcription, Anthem brings about such a community; nevertheless, a world of black and white. Ayn Rand does not overemphasize the effects of totalitarianism, but amplifies it so that it is more effortless for one to enlighten he or she’s notion on the particular proposal. First, by analyzation of “Equality 7-2521”, and

Anthem, the novel by Ayn Rand portrays a distant dystopia of the future in which a collectivist dictatorship is in place and the word I has vanished. It is in this stark, bleak, landscape devoid of personality or preference in which our hero Equality- 72521( or Prometheus) must live in . Though he struggles to be be himself in a society that demands blind obedience and intense pressure to obey and conform . He nonetheless finds victory through not giving up his passion, his values, or his independence.

Imagine a world where every aspect of your life is controlled. Everything from your job to your house is regulated for you. This is known as a dystopia. In a dystopia, the government controls citizens’ lives to constitute a false image of a perfect society. The world in Ayn Rand’s Anthem closely resembles a dystopia. Anthem is a story about a person’s experience being a rebel in a collectivist society. This person, known as Equality 7-2521, broke the rules of his society to realize himself as an individual. After sneaking out to his secret tunnel, falling in love, breaking out of jail, and escaping to a house in the Uncharted Forest, the resolution of the story includes him declaring his commitment to make individualism an important concept

Ayn Rand was an extraordinary American novelist and philosopher who wrote at least six books, which showed a dark feel within the books. One of Ayn Rand’s books was Anthem. It was written in 1937 and first published in 1938. Anthem is a dark aged novel, which takes place in an unspecific future date where mankind lives by numerous rules and controls. The Society created these rules so they can keep the people out from the past world, to remind them they have a place and a responsibility to follow, and so no one can become an individual.

Throughout our political theory class, the issue of power seems to be in the focus of the government and institution rather than the individuals. It’s as if study of politics is like philosophizing how to control, utilize, or tame the people than to look at individuals as each specks of unique potentials that cannot be predicted by the hierarchy. Therefore, to bring a justice towards individuals than the collectives or the government, Ayn Rand’s Capitalism should be studied by each student interested in learning politics. Especially for college like Oberlin where the left-leaning politics and ideology dominates the atmosphere, it is crucial for each student to realize that government is not the magical wand to tinkle away every problem in our

“When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer.”