6/6/2023 0 Comments Zamjatin we![]() ![]() ![]() WE is a foundational text in the dystopian canon. WE is D’s journal – purportedly a written celebration of the One State to be sent up with the INTEGRAL, but actually an account of D’s dawning and precarious revolutionary spirit. D-503 is an enthusiastic and compliant proponent both of this message and of the panoptic surveillance state that it has produced – that is, until he meets the enigmatic I-330, and, for the first time in his life, begins to question the dictats by which he’s always lived. Reason, logic and mathematics are the foundation of all knowledge and all art. D-503 is The Builder, or the chief engineer involved in the design of the INTEGRAL, the spaceship that’s going to bring the enlightened message of the One State to faraway worlds: that is, that freedom and happiness are compatible, and that a successful society needs to abolish the former. ![]()
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