In Anthem, the council people act as dictators, they do enslave the citizens and destroy their minds; the council pretty much brain-washed every single person living there. They keep things from them such as electricity and learning. By doing this, they keep the society at a lower and less intelligent level. The citizens are told what to do constantly; they have no say in what jobs they have, where they live or even their names. They do this because they want they want the people to think of themselves as a whole, the council men strive to get everybody else to do what they want them to do. They do not let the people in the society know certain things; they are forbidden to say “I” and be on their own. They forbid many other things, they also scare the citizens into “behaving” by saying that if they do something wrong they will be damned.