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== [[Literature]] ==
* The Auditors of the ''[[Discworld]]'' are creatures of pure law and order, who loathe individuality so much that any Auditor who uses the personal pronoun "I" tends to spontaneously vanish, to be replaced by another, identical Auditor. In ''[[
** Mind you, the rogue Auditor is hopelessly insane ''by Auditor standards''. For [[Puny Humans|humans]], [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]], [[All Trolls Are Different|trolls]], [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolves]], and [[Everything's Deader with Zombies|zombies]], she's a bit of a [[Sense Freak]], but otherwise a rather nice, if [[Blank Slate|inexperienced]], woman.
** Of note is ''why'' Auditors spontaneously vanish if they develop an individual identity: they decided that since any individual existence inevitably ends after a length of time and any length of time is
* ''[[Anthem]]'' by [[Ayn Rand]] has a society where collectivism has become so extreme that [[Language Equals Thought|first-person singular pronouns are banned]]. In fact, all the novels of [[Ayn Rand]] feature this trope as the ideal of the villains.
* This is how the ants are portrayed in ''[[The Once and Future King]]'' by T.H. White, when Merlin takes Wart into an anthill.
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