Should The Government Control An Individual In A Dystopian Society

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Imagine if your own government controls every aspect of your life. Well, in the book Anthem, by Ayn Rand that is how it is. In this book they live in a dystopian society which means that their way of life is corrupted. Their government or council as they call it, in the book tells them how to act. They tell them that you cannot even think about themselves in the first person, meaning they can’t say I or me at all. Their society is a collectivism, so they think about the group over themselves. Nobody can even have any relationships with anybody other than their gender. The government should not have the right to control an individual because, they hold people back so they can’t reach their full potential, it is not fair to tell people what they can think about, and finally it not right to tell people who they can talk to.
For example, when Equality went on his own he discovered something amazing. But, Equality might get lashed for discovering it because, “The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist”(32). That shows that the Council doesn’t as much as they show off. The amazing thing that he has discovered is known as electricity. So, if the government lets go a little of its power then more people could discover new things such as