The collectivist system maintains power and control over its subjects by brainwashing them. "We have learned things which are not in the scripts." Equality 7-2521 snuck into the home of th

e scholars and stole manuscripts. He stole them because yearns for knowledge. Equality 7-2521 read things that he was not supposed to read, gaining knowledge that he should not have gained. Being the bright individual that he is, he also inferred things. The council of scholars does not teach things that they don't want the subjects to know. On the contrary, they do teach them things that are fallacious in order to keep them naive enough to believe whatever the council tells them. Therefore, the collectivist system is brainwashing its subjects in order to maintain power and control over them.

Anthem is an excellent novelette about an imprisoning collectivist society. Ayn Rand shows how miserable this way of life can be. At the end she shows that it is possible to escape and live an independent life, free from collectivist dictatorship. Throughou

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