Not to be confused with the Japanese Heavy Metal band, the Neal Stephenson Doorstopper, the Roy Thomas miniseries, Anathem, or the video game. He had been born with a "curse" - a strong sense of curiosity, an eagerness to learn and question everything, and an unwillingness to subordinate himself to society.įor more information on Rand's ideas, please see Objectivism. The book is the secret journal of Equality 7-2521, in which he recounts his youth and tells of his emancipation from Ayn Rand's dystopia. Society is ruled by several oligarchical Councils that outlaw all new ideas and inventions as a result, science and the arts have stagnated. Individualism and freedom have been stamped out to the point where speaking the words "I, me, my, mine", or "ego" is a crime punishable by death. In the future, humanity has fallen into a dark age brought on by the evils of collectivism. It touches on her usual Objectivist themes, but it has a more fantastic, sci-fi setting, and it's pretty much the concentrated embodiment of The Evils of Free Will. Anthem is a novella by Ayn Rand ( in contrast with Atlas Shrugged).
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