Mollie Hemingway

the utmost happiness and peacefulness in society.

And so, as you might imagine, as the book goes through the journals of one of the cogs, one of the parts of the machine, things break down when outside influences start to help people see themselves as individuals.

So he explains why he calls it we in his own writings.

So he's building this spaceship that's going to take this beautiful society they've created and share it with other planets.

Whatever advanced life forms they find, they're going to teach this mechanized way of existing with everybody.

And because there's no individual,

He's explaining that we're all a we.

We all think the same thing.

We look the same.

The whole point, like everyone shaves their heads.

They wear uniforms.

Nobody is supposed to look different from anyone else.

But yeah, everything is scheduled.

The work is scheduled.

The eating is scheduled.

The recreation is scheduled.

The education is scheduled.

And he keeps on referencing how the greatest of the ancients is this guy, Taylor, the very first management consultant, who was very popular in the Soviet Union or the pre-Soviet Union in the Russian revolutionary times because he had figured out how to treat people

management of labor as like an actual science, that you could maximize the efficiency of what was going on.

And he's like, that was a great ancient.