We (Penguin Science Fiction)
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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is one of the more challenging books I have read. How it rambled on, despite it's short length really toyed with my attention span but I'm proud of myself for having this classic under my belt. We is a retro-futuristic book set in a dystopian society. The fun part about retro-futuristic books is that they reveal more about the time they were written more than anything else (fantastic how this was pointed out in the foreword). I loved picking apart how wrong almost all the tech were compared to what we have now. But yeah, this book isn't about that. It's just a thinly veiled allegory of a struggle in society that seems to be constant. The society of We was trying to maintain a hive to reach their goals. The problem is that human beings are not bees. As anyone would expect, this will eventually turn into a dumpster fire and it sorta almost did. It's only a matter of time before technology caught up with the needs of the state to reach a perfect hive. I think they are on the precipice of it. I ask myself, is a hive a bad thing if that's all I have ever know? Do we always have too many cooks on earth that is why it is so chaotic all the time? Is a hive our final form as a society? Could it even be ideal? Are human beings inherently masochists? Maybe. Maybe not. What stuck with me that as long as individual thinking persists, there would be no final revolution. This is very true. I also enjoyed the questionable maths in the book. We was not a smooth and fun read for me. I still recommend it for the culture. I loved the narration of the audiobook. It was deliciously retro!
The Science Fiction series by Penguin really turns out to be a bunch of excellent reads. From the pages of this dystopic story from the 1920s, you can see the reflection of the present time grin up at you distortedly and darkly. I had Love it if we made it by the The 1975 running through my mind the whole time while reading this, especially of course the one line: "Modernity has failed us"
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Beiträge
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is one of the more challenging books I have read. How it rambled on, despite it's short length really toyed with my attention span but I'm proud of myself for having this classic under my belt. We is a retro-futuristic book set in a dystopian society. The fun part about retro-futuristic books is that they reveal more about the time they were written more than anything else (fantastic how this was pointed out in the foreword). I loved picking apart how wrong almost all the tech were compared to what we have now. But yeah, this book isn't about that. It's just a thinly veiled allegory of a struggle in society that seems to be constant. The society of We was trying to maintain a hive to reach their goals. The problem is that human beings are not bees. As anyone would expect, this will eventually turn into a dumpster fire and it sorta almost did. It's only a matter of time before technology caught up with the needs of the state to reach a perfect hive. I think they are on the precipice of it. I ask myself, is a hive a bad thing if that's all I have ever know? Do we always have too many cooks on earth that is why it is so chaotic all the time? Is a hive our final form as a society? Could it even be ideal? Are human beings inherently masochists? Maybe. Maybe not. What stuck with me that as long as individual thinking persists, there would be no final revolution. This is very true. I also enjoyed the questionable maths in the book. We was not a smooth and fun read for me. I still recommend it for the culture. I loved the narration of the audiobook. It was deliciously retro!
The Science Fiction series by Penguin really turns out to be a bunch of excellent reads. From the pages of this dystopic story from the 1920s, you can see the reflection of the present time grin up at you distortedly and darkly. I had Love it if we made it by the The 1975 running through my mind the whole time while reading this, especially of course the one line: "Modernity has failed us"