Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [934]

“Ah: uniformly, everywhere! That’s exactly where it is—entropy, psychological entropy. Is it not clear to you, a mathematician, that only differences, differences in temperatures—thermal contrasts —make for life? And if everywhere, throughout the universe, there are equally warm, or equally cool bodies … they must be brought into collision—to get fire, explosion, Gehenna. And we will bring them into collision.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 934

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Brilliant translation of thermodynamics into political philosophy, connecting physical entropy to psychological conformity with clinical precision.