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Mollie Hemingway

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
526 total appearances

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The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

Yeah, the blackout square.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

Or like putting rainbows on things.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

And everybody's like, I must signal that I am no threat to the one state.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

Yes.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

I have to do this right now.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

And they do it without any...

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

They just have not put any thought into it at all.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

And we again think about like perfecting happiness.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

At first, it's a rainbow flag.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

And by the way, I love the rainbow.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

So this has always kind of made me sad that this became such a politicized symbol.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

But then that wasn't sufficient.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

Then you had to add aspects of transsexuality into the rainbow flag.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

And so it, but it seems very similar to what they're doing here.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

Every year they have to perfect and control more and more and add to the system of

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

Certainly.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

Actually, when you were talking about O-90, as she is in my translation, but perhaps O-9 in yours, there are lots of feminist critiques of her character, because how ridiculous that he writes only two women into this story, and one of them, all she wants is to have a baby.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

But of course there are conservative critiques of this.

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

This is in some ways a juvenile piece of work, a way of thinking about the oppression of systems without thinking about the balance that needs to be in play for ordered society

The Book Club | PragerU
Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

with a certain level of liberty for people and how to practice that liberty in the best possible way.