Equality through streamlined dehumanization

Here is a book and a proper narcotic author: one of the first writers censored by the Soviet regime; incredible anticipation, so incredible that one wonders if this is a conscious choice Zamyatin to show what leads a totalitarian regime, with a "Benefactor" a thought police, citizens equalized by dehumanization, diet guess that in the one that is set up in its Russian 20s?

In any case the opportunity beautiful reflections (which sometimes become comical) on the necessary (?) Dehumanization of man by reason, in a world where Taylor became the prophet and life mathematically adjusted by Tables:
"I'll be honest: we have not yet solved the problem of happiness quite accurate Twice a day, at the hours fixed by the tables, from 16h to 17h and 21h to 22h, our powerful and unique organization. is divided into separate cells. These are the Personal Hours. "
"All of us, and maybe you, too, have read as children, schools, the largest of all the ancient literary monuments have come down to us:" Indicator of Railways "Put it. beside tables and you'll graphite and diamond. "

Let us listen as the narrator, reflecting on the political system in which he lives:
"Why dance is beautiful? Because it is a forced movement, because the deeper meaning of the dance lies precisely in the absolute obedience and ecstatic, ideally lack of freedom. [...] Because the instinct of the stress has always existed in humans. "

Zamyatin frequently uses a language inspired the sciences, with metaphors sometimes a bit dry, burlesque or simply displaced: "This woman was too uncomfortably on an irrational and irreducible quantity in an equation." Reflection of his scientific training or deliberate choice to better highlight the asséchante dictatorship of reason?

The comparison with 1984 inevitable, reveals many similarities in the construction of the narrative, each built around a love story highlighting (or not) the humanity of individuals in a system that dehumanizes. Anyway, "We," twenty years ahead of 1984, with whom he is on a par in the beautiful facility of this universe where men have abandoned their freedom to reason before falter slightly.