Chapter 1

Equality 7-2521 brought up in a world of one man for all and all for one refers to himself in the text as we. This took me a while to catch onto, but why does he talk about himself in the multiple? The two reasons I have are the education he has faced, or his still believing in the concept of all for one. When he starts to learn about the world, read the manuscripts, and explore he states that he learned more in the two years on his own than the 10 years of schooling he took. Based on the whole brotherly attitude, completely communistic attitude, that the government  structure shows words like "I", "Me", "Myself" would have been excluded from curriculum because everyone is one together to forward as a whole. That structure would have no need for words regarding ones self because everyone is working together in synchronization. However, living in that from birth, growing up with the state, not a family, Equality 7-2521 may have been oblivious to ones self. He is still in the mindset that was created for him, he talks about how the council is right and he can only hope they will forgive his sins. Even though he defied them in search for his own path, that he said he always had the will for, he does say he was cursed with his curiosity and ambition to learn more, he is not proud of it. This may lead him to still say we because he wishes that he could be like the others and blindly follow. This honestly reminds me of Stalin patriots from the collapsed Soviet Union whom still worship Stalin and his leadership. Does it becomes case of lack of knowledge or actually believing what they have been taught. It makes me think that because they have been used to only one life that propaganda can propagate this feeling but belief in it’s factuality will stay regardless of if new information rises. Even religion shows this belief over nuance when facts about earths age or arguments over certain text rules appear belief will be the determining factor.