Read the excerpt from anthem. perhaps they cried out in protest and in warning. but men paid no heed to their warning. and they, these few, fought a hopeless battle, and they perished with their banners smeared by their own blood. and they chose to perish, for they knew. to them, i send my salute across the centuries, and my pity. the imagery of "a hopeless battle" to develop the theme that group thinking limits man's potential because it