Anthem as objective
by Dimitre Boateng
1. Politics
1.1. Capitalism is a system
1.2. "I do not surrender my treasures, nor do I have to share them. The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of spirit" (Rand 95)"I do not surrender my treasures, nor do I have to share them. The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of spirit" (Rand 95)..
1.3. "We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, one, indivisible and forever." (Rand 19)
1.4. "But you think such thought as these and you wish us to think them'' (Rand 56)
2. Epistemology
2.1. Man ability to reason is all that matters.
2.2. "We Equality 7-2521, Have discovered a new power of nature. And we have discovered it alone, and we are alone to know it" (Rand 52)
2.3. "My hands . . . My spirit . . . My sky . . . My forest . . . This earth of earth . . ." (Rand 94)
3. Metaphysics
3.1. Thing are what they are. we do not control what things are.
3.2. "Dare not choose in your mind the work you would like to do when you leave the home of the students. You shall do that which the council of Vocations knows in its great wisdom where you are needed by your brother men, there is no reason for you to burden the earth with your bodies." (page 22)
3.3. "Many men in the homes of the Scholars have had strange new ideas in the past," said Solidarity 8-1164, "but when the majority of their brother Scholars voted against them, they abandoned their ideas, as all men must" (Rand 73)
3.4. punishment was him getting lashed
4. Ethics
4.1. Man is an end to himself.
4.2. "I AM. I THINK. I WILL. " (Rand94)
4.3. "My hands . . . My spirit . . . My sky . . . My forest . . . This earth of mine . . ." (Rand 94)
4.4. "There is no joy for men, save the joy shared with all their brothers. But the only things which taught us joy were the power we created in our wires, and the Golden one. (Rand 86)