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Freedom Of Speech In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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If they don’t like what somebody does, they push them deeper, until they cannot see who they are. For an example let us go to page 63. Equality hides a secret from a council member, and through the bare of bickering, Equality is then sentenced to being lashed bare. Because a person utilizing what would be known as freedom of speech, they get whipped? What world is this to ask for the basic human right to be stripped from the humans themselves?
The dictators in Anthem are taking control of people 's basic repetitious lives. These demonarchs are telling people where to go, what to eat, when to sleep, when to wake, when to go to work, what to do for work, when to stop working, when to be sick, when to be healthy. The authoritarians have taken the
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