Anthem: How Does One Lead A Rational Life In An Irrational Society

The society of Anthem to Equality By the end of Anthem, Equality has denounced his commitment to the moral beliefs that his society shares. His society believes that everything must be done for the good of everyone. In the end of the book he decides that it is better for man to worry about themselves first. The main point of Rand’s essay, “How does One lead a Rational Life in an Irrational Society?” is that we as people need to make moral judgements. Equality made a moral judgement to no longer follow the ideas of the society that he left.
I believe that it was correct for Equality to denounce the morals of his old society, especially after the way that he fled them. When he left he ran because they feared change due to the fact that someone had worked on it alone. They also took the lazy approach and said that it would be far too hard to get everyone to agree to the new form of light rather than the candle. Given the manner in which they refused him, it seems that they wanted to keep people unaware that such things were even possible. Equality is the type of person who is independent and thinks that progression is important to mankind. In the end of the book he comes to think that mankind for some reason progressed backwards by beginning the worship of the word, “we.” I think that
He thought that their worship of the word “we” was what made them so terrible. The fact that they weren’t even allowed to think for themselves, only as one whole could they accomplish anything. Nothing within the system was permitted to move on its own. And similarly to the idea presented in the essay, no one was able to morally judge anything or anyone. This was one of the biggest problems that Equality had with his old