Anthem

Eerie how this felt like Prometheus was writing this in a future that completely correlates with current events...and it was written by Ayn Rand all the way back in the THIRTIES. It's been a slow, deliberate dive towards this type of censorship, hasn't it?

Individualism is something Western culture takes a fierce pride in. This book illustrates that philosophy quite well, but in very black and white terms. Although I did enjoy that Prometheus is completely fine with leaving the brothers that wish to remain ignorant, right where they are. Rand, despite her seemingly stark view on the matter of Individualism, at least allows that there is no pleasing everyone, and that you shouldn't be forced into a philosophy or culture.

Chapter 11 was quite a moment. It reminded me just slightly of how I felt realizing I was the “god” of my reality and then, an atheist. Individualism certainly took on a new meaning then, and I feel as though this book added another layer to that personal philosophy.