Zinn’s style. Rand says, “Altruism is evil” (Ayn). Altruism is the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others. Certainly not what Rand stood for, but Howard Zinn did. He believed in being there for your neighbor, friends, family, or others who needed you. Rand’s Objectivism was also not a loving and caring philosophy. She never once said, “Remember your friends and family, they are the ones who will be there when you fall.” Consistent with a display of selfish values, those were her ideas, “what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine.” Her ideas lacked generosity and faith or religion. Difficult as it may seem, she was said to be a nice old lady who has been just like a cuddly grandma, that's hard to imagine.
Wikipedia says of Objectivisim, “that the only social system consistent with this morality is one that displays full respect for individual rights embodied in “Laissez-Faire Capitalism”, and that the role of art in human life is to transform humans' metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical form—a work of art—that one can …show more content…
Still higher above them was the World Council. The word choice in Anthem uncovers one human nature and his journey to discovering independence from the government. For these people there was only…”We.” “We are one in all and all in one. There are no men, but only the great “We”, One, indivisible and forever” (19). This great “We” includes characters such as Equality 7-2521, Liberty 5-3000, Fraternity 2-5503 and Solidarity 9-6347. Not individualized with names and values, but called as “We”, and made to believe they were not “One” but something like a herd. Not greater than the position or title they were given by their ruling authorities. Equality 7-2521 found something within themselves that gave them a drive to thrive. They found a part of the old world known as