Mollie Hemingway

You know, We the Living by Ayn Rand is another book that clearly seems inspired by this.

And I always think about how people joke that there are no children in Ayn Rand novels.

I remember one libertarian said,

Some could argue there are no adults in Ayn Rand novels, Ayn Rand novels either.

But again, it almost seems like this perpetual adolescence of thinking in the way this is written to not understand the challenge of having a society that flourishes and is best for people and how there might be constraints in play there.

So that reminds me again of the I-330 versus O-90.

So all the women and all the men are supposed to be identical.

They're not supposed to be individuals in any way.

And one of the ways you can tell that he starts to have an imagination is that he describes O-90.

He thinks that she is well-named or numbered because she's so plump and round and she has round features.

And I-330 is more independent and he feels that the number or cipher better represents her.

Or there are characters that are kind of snivelly and...

serpentine, and they are associated with the letter S. But he starts seeing that they are in fact individuals, even as the state has tried to remove all of them.

So also interesting is how the way that the state is set up, everything is glass.

You can see into everybody's work and home life because it's just glass.

But they do lower the curtains when they're redeeming their pink tickets.

Yes.

And even that, I was thinking through how a few years ago during the Me Too craze, there were these consent apps.

Yes.

And how—