Comparing Society Today with Ayn Rands, Anthem Essay -- Government

Imagine a macrocosm where people are only expected to live up to 45 years old. In todays society, there are countries that experience this. In the novel Anthem, by Ayn Rand there are legion(predicate) factors like lifestyle, government, medicine, and training that lead to this. There are a couple of ways where the ground in the novel is similar and different to todays society.A reason why life hope is so short in the novel is because of the nifty Rebirth, the Great Rebirth led to a new world that doesnt have machinery or electronics. Because of this there was a lack of medicine. Life expectancy is so short in this society because there isnt any travel medicine. They think that by cutting them open and letting them bleed the infections would go away. In fact, this would cause someone to bleed to death. This relates to us because in the commencement ceremony we didnt know much about medicine or technology, which lead to many deaths. Now, our society has greatly improved because medicine has been greatly developed and diseases that were at a time thought to be incurable now have a cure. Also, educa...