Objectivism In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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One day, when all of the people from the Unmentionable Times are gone, will all memories from the Unmentionable Times also be gone? Will all rules of the Unmentionable Times be unknown? Not necessarily… Ayn Rand wrote one of her most famous books, Anthem, mainly based around Objectivism, the philosophy she created while writing this book. Objectivism is ultimately the hiding of self morals from the individual mind. Thus, a society/culture with such strict rules, lacks the elements of what once created the society to begin with.
In Anthem, the main character, Equality, struggles with his “differences” as an individual. For example, “We are twenty-one years old. We are six feet tall, and this is a burden, for there are not many men who are six