'The Nature Of Science In Ayn Rand's Anthem'

“Many men in the Homes of the Scholars have had strange new ideas in the past . . . but when the majority of their brother Scholars voted against them, they abandoned their ideas, as all men must.” Equality presents the council his invention of the lightbulb showing technological progress from the candle. The Council doesn’t care to advance technological progress but only to control it. All the members of the council must agree to approve an invention and that has not happened in a hundred years. This reflects the ideals of collectivism and that the society works on a consensus. “But we loved the Science of Things. We wished to know. We wished to know about all the things which make the earth around us. We asked so many questions that the Teachers forbade it.” Equality wanted to ask questions about the nature of science but was forbidden by his teacher. The society wants the people to concentrate on the history of the scholars which are the ones that deal with the nature of science. That is why the technological progress is primitive because the same people try to progress science and technology but they never do. Other people do not get question or know the nature of science, so science never gets to progress when others outside the council

The events of Anthem show the nature of science and technology and how they try to restrict people or themselves from advancing science and technology. Equality’s society resembles totalitarian which the author Ayn Rand how to go through in the Soviet Union. Other totalitarian portrayals are not technologically primitive like Anthem because the other portrayals don’t try to resist technological and science progression, they just don’t like outside influences on their science and technology. They like to have their own research and inventions so their people are not influenced by the