The very obvious difference is that we don’t live in a Utopian society where everyone holds hand and dances to David Bowie’s, “Let’s Dance”. We live in a world where poverty exists, where the rich laugh at the poor and have reality TV shows about them. We live in a world where infants in lesser developed countries die before they even understand they’re alive. Animals are going extinct, people get furious if one thing doesn’t go their way. I suppose Anthem and other Utopian societies have us beat in that scenario. Anthem is based on having laws, following those laws, …show more content…
Great idea on paper, it’s just extravagant. The idea of all workers of society getting paid the same for the same job, no one is better or worse than the other, it even eliminates poverty! Like most things, it’s an absolutely flawless idea on paper, but then in action everything falls apart. Even more people are in poverty than previously, and the next second, there’s a dictator who controls everything about your life. Anthem’s idea of a society where there is no higher person or lower person is a great idea, but then that ends up leading to, like communism, more poverty and people getting ruled by a single ruler that could have no idea what they’re