Generation Of Millenials In Ayn Rand's Anthem

If the generation of millennials were asked to live a collectivist society like the one described in Ayn Rand’s, Anthem, I foresee that they would struggle greatly with the lack of control over their lives and with the absence of any individuality or superiority. For example, in Anthem, a person does not have any say in what they are to do in their life, for, “the Council of Vocations [comes] to give [men their] life Mandates which tell those who reach their fifteenth year what their work is to be for the rest of their days” (24). The generation of me-centric millennials would be driven insane if they were required this, especially at an age of fifteen, when the desire for independence starts to develop. Furthermore, we learn from Equality
7-2521 that, “[i]t is not good to be different from [one’s] brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them” (21). To ask millennials to embrace this ideology and reject all situations that suggest superiority (i.e. grades, sports, talents, etc.) and embrace complete equality would be near impossible to achieve, since the nature of high school, college, and their lives as a whole have been extremely competitive. All in all, with the complete lack of control and overwhelmingly extensive sense of equality, the generation of me-centric millennials would face extreme hardships and difficulty if forced into a collective society, such as the one presented by Ayn Rand in her novella Anthem.