Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [327]

Because it protects our unfreedom—that is, our happiness. The ancients would begin to talk and think and break their heads—ethical, unethical … Well, then. In short, what about such a paradisiac poem, eh? — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 327

Note

R-13’s dizzying ideological performance, where totalitarian orthodoxy is casually reframed as a paradise of lost innocence and blissful unfreedom.