The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand As we read Anthem, can you imagine how it would be to live in a world where the Council of Vocations determined the path of your future? How would it would feel to live in a world where you could have no preferences, no say at all, in what you would do for the rest of your life? And then, as you consider how important it is to you to have the freedom to choose your own future, share your plans with us. You may already be set on a course for the future (and you may still have no idea), but give us at least an idea of the direction you are considering right now because--as today becomes tomorrow and tomorrow fades into the next day--the future will be here before you know it! And besides, you get no points for just saying you don't know!! :)
If I had no say in anything, I would feel useless. Sometimes I will have a really bad day, which makes me look forward to tomorrow. You never know when you could have a fantastic day! Every day would be the exact same. Nothing different and nothing to look forward to! I love knowing that I'm doing something over the weekend. It makes the week seem not all bad. You just have to be grateful for everyday, and every freedom you have! (:
ReplyDeletewell if i lived in a world where i had no say in life it would be really bad. what i wanna do in the future is i wanna go into the airforce for 4 years and then go to collage for 4 years and the sometime become a police officer... in collage i wanna learn about law/crimminal justice stuff. I wanna do this cause i feel like it will haelp me get past my past and i can learn new things and halp people in life plus helping my self.
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If i lived in a world where a council decided how i should act what i would do and ecspecially what i think i would go crazy. I like having my options and having my opinions. When i want something i have to have it and if that was taken away from me i would do everything to try and get it back. In my future i wanna be an exotic veteranarian and travel the world.
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I think it would be horrible for the world to decide what I do for the rest of my life, because most of the time it's going to pick what I don't want to do or what I don't enjoy doing. I think that people do best in the things that they enjoy doing, atleast I do. I'm grateful that I have the freedom to have the choice to choose the thing I want to do for the rest of my life. I am wanting to go into medical school, and I'm gonna either be a dermatologist. Although, I haven't made up my mind, but I will figure it out.
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i think it would be dumb. i wouldnt like if i could not pick what i would do for the rest of my like. i want to be a arcated. i like to build cool thangs and i have fun doing it. that is what i want to be when i grow up.
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I would not know how i would feel living in a world like that...i mean...we wouldn't have an opinion, or a thought of anything else so i wouldn't really know. But as of rite now, i want to be in the world of music! :) playing music is my thing and i hope to live my life doing what i love, which is playing music for the people who enjoy it :)
ReplyDeleteMy plans for the future is to go to Sulivan in Louisville Kentucky and study business management. I wouldn't want a bunch of people telling me were to go and what to do with my life. I would break the laws then so i could do what i wanted.
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If i lived in a world where the Council determined the path for my future... I really don't know how I would not go crazy! Thinking about this makes me realize how lucky we are to be able to choose how we can live our lives and choose our future. I would absolutely love to be a Beautician after high school.. but I kinda think I should also have a back up plan that makes better money so I can have a big family and be able to get whatever I want!
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If someone were to choose for me what i was to do for the rest of my life and it was something i didnt like i wouldnt have the drive to do well at my job. Also for someone who is smart and actually puts forth an effort in school to get one of the lowest jobs in society is bad. For me i want to be some kind of doctor whether it be an ER doctor, a psychologist, a physical therapist, or be envolved in sports medicine i wouldnt want anyone to choose what field i should go into.
ReplyDeletewell we would be born into it so we would know no other way to live. how we express how we feel about our life depends on what job we get.if we found the subway tunle we would keep it to ourselfs. the life we live would get boring after awhile. see i had a littel fun and talked like i was from the book anthem.
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I dont think I could live with the Government deciding what I do for the rest of my life. Even though I do have people telling me what to do but not telling me how to live my life. My future looks like me going graduating high school and going to college and graduating. I really want to work with animals. Still thinking though.
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If i was told what my future was, i would be really upset with that and i would probably rebel. I don't really like being told what to do right now with my life so it would make me really upset. I like sharing and having my own opinion. My plans for the future is to be a Message Therapist or a
ReplyDeletecosmetologist, and if i was defiantly told to be something that i absolutely hated, ya.....i wouldn't do it. ha ha I would be totally against the society that's in Anthem. I like my freedom and independence that i have.(:
If I was told what to do with my future I would be so upset and even angry and I'd probably become a rebel. I know that your parents tell you what to do and thats understandable, but for strangers to tell me what to do, I would not have that at all. I have a couple plans for my future and that would be an accountant or a pharmasist i dont know which one to go with lol. If I was told to do a job that I would not enjoy doing or hate I would stand up and say that I wasnt gonna do it haha Go Rebels! :)
ReplyDeleteLiving in a world where I couldn't make my OWN decisions would drive me INSAANNEE!!! I love doing my own thing and going on my own path and having my own ways, but if someone were to dictate my future, well, let's just say that particular government and I would never see anything hand in hand. I would want to go into the foreign affairs field. I want to choose the job I want to apply for. I want to do what I want, not what others want me to do.
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I would not survive in that society for very long because i would try to overthrow the government. I would raise a huge army out of all of the people. My plans for the future is going to college for business managment then moving up to newyork and make a gun shop where you buy, sell, trade, fix, and create guns.
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No, ther is alway someone that has to be different and say want they feel. or what they think of other people, well i am here to tell you that that is not right to talk about someone behind there back. no matter what you are doing in life your always going to have an opinion about someething. even if you dont think you don't, well you do. i dont think our world couldnt go a day without having an opinion, and that is the way i see it.
ReplyDeletewhat!!! i cant be the amazing person i set out to be. i cant choose my goals in life. to me this probably the worst kind of punishment, to not be yourself. Then who would you be? The person next to you? If you don't already know i plan to either be a director or a producer for movies. now some people are wishing high school never ends and im ready to graduate......"collage". i think i might be a few years off. But I'm sick of sitting at that old wooden desk and ready to follow my dreams. This kind of political control shouldn't be aloud i don't think anyone should be handed this type of power. someone will eventually corrupt a system. This book show the kind of outcome. cant wait to read it!
ReplyDeleteWith my future, I would like to either be an accountant or a nurse. I've always wanted to work into the medical field. Since i've been watching Untold Stories of The ER, i've kinda been changing my mind a little bit. My dad also like to push me into trying to be a doctor. I understand he just wants me to have a good future, but I want to do what I want to do. So i'd like to go for one of them career choices. I love math and science so that's good for both of them professions. I'm still stuck on if I even want any of them though.
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I might find it easier if someone would just decide my future. Of course I wouldn't like the idea of the government controlling every aspect of my life. In my future though I do see myself going to college after graduating. I want to either study to be an architect or study to be a physical trainer/therapist. But that could change by next year.
ReplyDeleteIf i had a say in nothing i would feel like nothing, all they pretty much are, are slaves to the council of Vocations! I would not like people telling me what my future is because i want to determine my own future and have fun doing it. I wouldn't want people giving me boring, crappy jobs for the rest of my life i would want to do something i love and am passionate about! I also wouldn't want everyday to be the same cause you would never have a good day or a bad day because they would all be the same. So people need to realize how much freedom we really have and stop complaining about how much there life sucks because were lucky our world isn't like that.
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ReplyDeleteI would really like to be a vet, but I am honestly not sure. I could also go into timeshare like my mom and work at home for the rest of my life, which sounds good. But as a side note, I would get arrested the first day the laws changed into the "great we" because I'm selfish of myself and like having my own feelings.
I would hate to be in a world like that I'm so happy and I feel like America is lucky because even in today's world there is places where people live and they can't make their own decisions. When I grow up I want to be a nurse so I can save people's lives I think it would be an interesting life path
ReplyDeleteMy plans for the future of far from decided on. I have no clue what I want to do but sports and buisness do interest me so I knnow now that the medical field probably isn't for me. My plan now is to keeo playing sports in highschool get a scholarship to get my college paod for and just go with the flow in college and see what I want to do. I know lots of people that said when there were in college they still had no clue what they wanted to do and said that just one day it kinda of just came to them of clicked you could say. So with that said i guess you gould say going with the flow into college is my plan. I think in the end i'll be happy doing whatever it is I have decided upon and i shall be successfull which is all I want!
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I'm pretty sure that life under the rule of the Council of Vocations would completely suck. I don't want to live a life where people i don't know restrict my action and potential. I don't want to be a street sweeper. Life that is determined for me would be lonely, much like sitting in the corner by myself in your class. I can't live up to my full ability when I'm shut off from the world like that. I don't want to be a street sweeper. I want to pass High School.
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Yes, yes, I am sure you WERE lonely--as were the other four specified to sit in other areas of the room also by themselves. But, if you didn't notice, there was much less talking, laughing, cb noises, whistling, and just fewer distractions in general with you all spread out. In fact, it was kind of like what a tenth grade class should be. Well, except for the little fort you built with extra copies of Anthem and hid behind. Yeah, so, ALMOST what a tenth grade class should be.
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ReplyDeleteif i had to live in a world where i had no say i would take my chances in the uncharterd forest, and try to make a better living for myself there.
when i graduate i plan on moving to my home place in texas and attending A&M university to study marine biology. I plan on graduating from there and traveling the world to study the oceans and lakes of other countries.this has always been my dream, and if i couldnt persue it then i would definitely rebell!
If we had that kind of soiety life would be very boring. No one would be able to express there feelings or express there abilty to be unique. If I had no say I would prob run away. My whole future would be ruined, and then i wouldnt want to work cuz i would be working on something i didnt want to. I would prob get hanged in this place because i would break all the laws, and not listen to the people who were in charge.
ReplyDeleteBy chance we ever did live under that society, I guess I would have to suck it up and abide by there laws, Also after i graduate highschool. I plan to going to another country to where i will start college. I really dont want to say where or what so nobody is influenced by me, but by the time i graduate after 6-8 years of schooling i would be able to put my parents into retirement, my self into early retirement, and hopefully my kids and theres can be set for life also. Im going to work as hard as i can. -__Bob_Marley___-
ReplyDeleteI would feel very trapped and unsure about everything around me in that kind of society. And I'm not completely sure about what I want to do for my future, but for now, I want my future to include music. I love music and singing. So until I know what I want to do for sure, I'll stick with music. The scientific and medical fields have never interested me, and sports haven't either. I did play football for one year in intermediate, but it wasn't my thing and I never played again. So maybe when I get to college I'll figure out what I'll like.
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ReplyDeleteI couldn't imagine living in a place where I have no say in what I do. It doesn't make sense that they know you like something and are good at it, but choose something else for you because you actually like something.
Once I graduate high school, I would like to go to MUS, Mizzou, or UMKC to major in nursing. I would like to specialize in pediatric nursing. I love kids and want to help people in any way I can.
First off, I wouldn't allow myself to take orders from people like in Anthem. They are control freaks who are too prideful in themselves! Hubris will bring the council down! Anyways, I would personally start a secrecey of rebellion and learn things that the Council doesn't want people to know on my own. Then I would use that against them and yes, I know I would win. :)Anyways,I do actually have a few ideas of what I want to do in the future. I might want to go to medical school or possibly learn about astronomy. I'm really interested in the mysteries of the galaxy and I would love to learn more! (Notice how I use "I" a lot. People in Anthem should do that more often because it's really confusing and it makes me really mad.) Haha :P
ReplyDeleteThat kind of life where everyone made all the decisions for me would give me an easy life to live. I wouldnt have to worry so much about how my future will end up turning into. I could just relax and enjoy my life as it passes before my eyes. But unfortunately, Id rather prefer a challenge. My future will be decided by me and only me and i believe that i can become an olypic runner and be very sucessful in life, as ive stated in my personal narrative in the beginning of the school year. Ill have a ton of money, become famous for my running ability and live a long health life. Then, then i retire, ill still be making my own decisions untill the end of my life here on Earth.
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ReplyDeletehaving no say in what i want for my future would suck. because i have plans for my future and i want to do what i want not what someone wants for me. i want to be able to move on to bigger and better things. i cant do that if someone is holding me back from that. i want my future to be different from everyone elses. having the same future as everyone else would be so boring.
If we all lived in the society that Harrison Bergeron describes, i feel we would all be depressed. I mean, if you can't even have your own opinion or feelings what would you do all day? Maybe it's just me but I could not be a street sweeper for the rest of my life. Living in a society where they give you a job that contrasts your interests and talents,masking everything about your individuality, is too controlling. All the rules make this government up to be an overcontrolling environment.
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if i lived in a society like anthem, i would be releived. right now i have to many options everyone is saying that i can be anything i want to be, or that i can do anything that i want to do, but really thats more terrifying that encouraging. if I had limited options, or if i had someone choosing my career path for me, that would actually lift a giant weight off my shoulders. right now i have 3 main career paths i can either be a music major in colledge and persue music and dance, or i could be a math major and work in computors, or i could go to law school after colledge. i have so many options that i'm scared that i'm going to choose the wrong one and completely screw up my life. but there is so many ways i could go that i'm literally limitless.
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Well if I had to live in the time that the book is I would hate it if you had no prefences amd couldnt do what you wanted to. As of right now im not sure what I want to be but my brother want to havr a farm someday and when I was younger I wantd to be a farmer so I think that I would love to do that someday and enjoy it a lot.
ReplyDeleteLiving in that world would be unimaginable. I have wanted to be a vet since I can remember so if that was taken away from me I would hate anything else I had to do. What if someone who hated pets was asigned vet? Or what if they were incapable or not smart enough? Having the ability to choose my own future is very important to me and many other people. Not getting to speak what is on my mind is enough to drive somone crazy. Reading this book really makes me greatful for what I have.
ReplyDeleteWhen i'm older I would like to go to college and be a psychiatrist. I like to help being during all their problems. I always like giving advise to people and many others. I like it when people come to me for help. In that type of society I would not like it if someone choose my own career path. I'd be pretty mad.
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I would hate to be living in a world where people mad my decisions for me. I would not like that at all because I dont like people telling me what to do haha! As of right now i want to be an ultrsound tech. I think i was to specialize in babies. I love babies and i think its something that i would enjoy doing. My family is very supportive about my decisions. Im gonna go to OTC for my 2 free years of basics then im not sure what college i want to go to, somewhere with a good ultrasound department! Im excited about my future!
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If i lived in a world like that i'd be pretty upset because most likly i wont be happy with what they choose for me. I want to be able to have my own opinion on life and do what will make me happy, to be honest i really dont have much of an idea of what i want to do. I know i want to be successful and be in collage after school. I always get to response saying; you'll figure it out, it will come to you....well it has'nt some yet and i hope it does soon because i want my mind to be set and not moving around to different things.
ReplyDeleteI think that if i had some old people tell me what my job was for the rest of my life i would leave the town or city and try too be free. Its easy for me too see what it would be like if i did run away because i know what the outcome would be since i am reading the book but i understand how the people living in that society didnt know any different and didnt have any will to escape from their slavery. i would hate having to obey the will of someone else and their choice for the rest of my life. I would like to have a job having to do with the outdoors like conservation but i know that most of those jobs dont produce much money so i think an eye doctor would be a good choice.
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I honestly have no idea how I could survive in a society like that. I would definitely go with Mordecai and rebel. I couldnt be able to do anything fun anymore. Life would have no purpose. None, whatesoever. And whats the point of that? I would probably be exactly like Equality 72521 and run away into the forest while my lover follows me ahaa thatd be the best. Very classically epic(:
ReplyDeleteI think living in a life with no feelings of your own and no thoughts of your own, would be horrible. Also having someone else choose your furture would suck, I guess in chine they choose your future, though. For my future I want to be a musician and to not follow what other people say.
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i could not live in society i would rather die.
ReplyDeletei would not beable to do anything i like to do.
i would have no purpose in life.
i would be like equality and run into the forest and stay there as long as i please.
if i had to listen to people like that in the book they would have to kill me because i would not listen to any of the rules they have or anything. if someone chooses my future i probably will not listen. but for me i want to go play college football and i dont know what i am doing after that.
ReplyDeleteIf i had to live in the road of athem. id probly not even feel anything. i have derpression and im biepolar.... i would probly get whipped for argueing or feeling pain. I think thats why i live in todays world. i still feel as if im trapped beause im still living inmy own home under my moms rules. but my future is takeing the next step. I have dreams and goals but you cant lay an egg without the chicken so im just takeing baby steps. my first step to get a job a car and my own place... which makes it exsteamly difficult when my mom always grounds me... :)
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if i had to live in a world such as equality's, i would not be able to make it. this is because i always have very strong oppinions about things and i love to voice them. so for my future i plan to be living out on a big farm in nebraska. using all my freedoms and living my life to its fullest potential.
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If I had no say, people in my classes would really be out of luck... A lot of people turn to me whenever they need help with school or if they don't want to take responsiblitly on a project. So if I had no say and both my intellegence and leadership abilities were prohibited, I would be letting those people down. It wouldn't be good... As for my plans right now in life,I plan on going into music. Major in music and sound, get into music developement. That kind of stuff. It's a long shot, i know, but I'm excited for it.
ReplyDeleteWell i would not be able to live with someone else telling me what i had to do for the rest of my life and i would end up running away like Equality did. My plans for when i get older are to more than likely be a marine biologist and go to collage for it and then retire in Florida along with friends and every morning be able to get up and walk out with the beach as my backyard.
Deletewell..i coulnt and wouldnt be able to express my thoughts and idea to the world. life would be dull, boring, lifeless. so on so forth. but since we can we have plenty of technology and ideas and blah blah.
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If I lived in a world like Equality's, I would do everything I could to get out. I think not having the option to voice my opinion, or decide for myself would be terrible. I think if the council got to choose my job, I wouldnt be happy at all. I want to be a nurse when I get older, and I really couldnt see myself doing much else.
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i think that choosing your own future is important because i think people should apply themselves to somthing that they get enjoyment out of doing theire job or their career. if some one told me to be a street sweeper i would probbly refuse and run away to do somthing else
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I think choosing your furture is great for yourself instead of others choosing it for you. I think you should have your onw choose of careere in life and not what others want you to do. If I was told to do something for a job and didnt wanna do it then I wouldnt. I would rebell against thier thoughts and do what I wanted to do. SuperMan10
ReplyDeleteI would like to start my own samll business when I grow up. I would like to run a a resturant or small cafe with family. Chicken
DeleteIn the world of Anthem, people don't look up, people don't see themselves, and nobody is a someone. They are all "The Group" I couldn't do that. I like being me, even when I don't like how it's going, I still know that I can be me and not have to porry about being one of many. Having someone else control your future sounds worse to me than the idea of Fate. If everything that everyone does is preordained, then to have someone else make your desicions for you would just mean you have that much less control over what you do.
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Ya know? I wanna become an entertainer when I grow up. Scratch that, grow up EVEN MORE. Haha. But for reals, I wanna do something that will affect people for the better. They say laughter is the bomb. And from what people have told me, I'm pretty good at making people laugh. Now if you told me that I couldn't do that or anything like it, I wouldn't care. But if I COULDN'T do what I wanted, I would flip a cow. I mean, think of all the lives I could've affected. All that talent.... LOST! America and all the world would be a mess if you had the gov'ment trying to control everyone. (as if they already don't do that) But I'm talking like ball n chain garbage. Nobody wants to be forced to do or not do what they do or don't want to do. Feel me? Ayn Rand is a weirdo
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I would hate it if someone controlled everything I did, my whole life plans would be ruined. I want to go to college and be an architect. If someone was choosing everything I do, and I wasn't able to have a family of my own I would be really upset. I just don't think that it's right to make people's decision for them.
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I believe death would be a better choice than a life without free will. If I had to live like that, oblivious to all the wrongdoing around me, then I wouldn't want to be alive at all. My plans are simple: graduate high school, move to Canada, go to post-secondary school for an artistic career, and reside in Toronto as a concept or graphical artist. This has been my plan for the past 2 years and it probably will not change. Assuming I won't fail, I only have 2 years remaining.
ReplyDeleteFor my future im not yet sure what i want to do job wise. But I already know I want to move to Oklahoma where my dad, grandma, aunt, and uncle lives as soon as me and Mackenzie graduate. I know I would also like to marry Mackenzie. My dad does construstion type stuff and hauls big Machinary across the United States. I dont really want to do constructuion but hauling machinary across the United States would be pretty cool. To see all the sites and cool stuff along the road.
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If we, as human beings, couldn't prefrance anything, I know that I would go crazy! I love to say what I feel, I also love to hear other's opinions. That would be a horrible future if that was where we were heading as a sociaty. My plans for my future are to do what I can in the field of vocal music. I can't play any insterment, so I can''t do anything in that field.
ReplyDeletewell if i lived in a world where i had no say in life it would be really bad my plans for my future is some kinda ag carareer
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Though i honestly haven't put much thought into my future (or at least not as much as i should) i still know its important and living in such a society where i couldn't even think for myself would be horrible. I do believe i would have attempted the same thing and Ayn Rand did a great thing when she did what she did. The society would be bad and not making my own mind up and deciding for myself my choices i don't think i would be able to stay in such a society.
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If i had a say in nothing i would feel like nothing, all they pretty much are, are slaves to the council of Vocations! I would not like people telling me what my future is because i want to determine my own future and have fun doing it. I wouldn't want people giving me boring, crappy jobs for the rest of my life i would want to do something i love and am passionate about! I also wouldn't want everyday to be the same cause you would never have a good day or a bad day because they would all be the same. So people need to realize how much freedom we really have and stop complaining about how much there life sucks because were lucky our world isn't like that.
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