“And suddenly, for the first time this day, we remembered that we are the damned. We remembered and we laughed.” Equality laughs because he remembers that he is the damned and is no longer of the men and the brothers of the society He knows the council is beneath him and has no reason to say what he is and who he is. Another reason is Equality is smarter than them and no longer needs them to dictate his life. He also has no longer a need to be apart of the Council and their society to further himself. There is no need for Equality to even think about caring that he is the damned. The Council has stated that he is no longer a part of the men and brothers of their society. The Council has undoubtedly foolishly damned him for going behind their backs and going beyond their progress by studying on his own making leaps and bounds ahead of their progress. He went so much farther that he has probably gone beyond anything they could even think of accomplishing in hundreds of years, because they love to foolishly put the smartest people they have in their society in the wrong positions, so that they may never come anywhere close to their full potential.

“This God , this one word :”I”. In Equality’s eyes he sees himself as a god. In the society of Anthem, to call yourself “I” is to be the same as calling yourself God. You would be putting yourself above all others, which is how you would be addressing your God (or lack thereof) in your religion or culture.

So in the end of it all Equality laughs because he knows that the Council is below him. He knows that he is and always will be a modern day God. Equality knows he is better than them, so he shouldn’t care what they say or call him. He knows they can't dictate his future anymore seeing as how he is more advanced personally and mechanically than they will probably ever be. So in conclusion this is why Equality