1984 & We

[S.R. Prozak]

> ...are both good novels. I've re-read each in the past
> year and recommend them.

Yet:
"The main character of the book, a mathematician named D-503, must come to grips with his love for the intriguing I-330 (lovely name, don't you think?) who gets him thinking more about "I" (the selfish self) than "We" (the OneState). "

http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/mf138.html

Isn't this a bit overhashed, since we've now seen that the state can be composed of Is that unknowning do its dirty work for it? Hasn't greed - of time, of energy, of "wealth" - been the fundamental problem?

I have trouble taking these fundamentalists seriously. This is why Huxley's is to my mind the greater work - he points out how a decentralized system can work and how, without bad intentions, hell on earth can be created.

Note: "The Birth of Tragedy" is also a far more enlightening critique of modernity.


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