WE are 1984

Washington, You're Fired! is a film by William Lewis. The film takes a look into the Bush Administrations "terrorist" laws, which are vast, mysterious to most, but most importantly laws that have made a mockery of our Constitution. Here is an excerpt from the film examining the "Thought Crime Bill", H.R. 1955



http://www.washingtonyourefired.com/

With that powerful message in mind, let us FREAK OUT! While doing my own research I came across a lot of comments comparing our current government to that one of 1984.



Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949 by George Orwell. I am going to assume we all know the story. Big Brother is watching. right? If not here are some links for some history:

http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four


My thoughts drift to a lesser known book by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin titled We.


This book was actually written in 1920 in response to Zamyatins experiences with the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. We, is the first major dystopian novel to be written. Zamayatin joined the Bolsheviks in 1908, which then led to his arrest and exile from Russia. Returning and eventually gaining amnesty, he began writing fictions, and contributing to a variety of socialist newspapers. The publication of We led to the banning of all his works, including banning any further of his publications in Russia.

We was not published in Russia until 1988, while in America it took until 1924 to be published and released.

We influenced George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.


Here is an excerpt from We by Yevgeny Zamyatin:

I, D-503, builder of the INTEGRAL, I am only one of the mathematicians of OneState. My pen, accustomed to figures, is powerless to create the music of assonance and rhyme. I shall attempt nothing more than to note down what I see, what I think-or, to be more exact, what we think (that's right: we; and let this WE be the title of these records). But this, surely, will be a derivative of our life, of the mathematically perfect life of OneState, and if that is so, then won't this be, of its own accord, whatever I may wish, an epic? It will; I believe and I know it will.

I feel my cheeks burning as I write this. This is probably like what a woman feels when she first senses in her the pulse of a new little person, still tiny and blind. It's me, and at the same time it's not me. And for long months to come she will have to nourish it with her own juice, her own blood, and then-tear it painfully out of herself and lay it at the feet of OneState.

But I am ready. Like all of us, or nearly all of us. I am ready.




Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (February 1, 1884 – March 10, 1937)