Welcome to the symposium of the lot of cetas. Today we're joined by Connor. Hello there.

Hello. It's nice to have a symposium with you because we haven't done one in a while.

Not in a new studio yet. Not in a new studio. And I think the last symposium we had with the symposium on Hume and you know it's good to have one again okay and we have more on the pipeline

there are good ideas I have about what we should do next.

I think you will definitely like them.

And lots of people are going to like our next symposium as well.

So today we're going to have a very special symposium because we're going to talk about

a novel. We're going to change our themes a bit. Or actually no, we're going to talk about

themes that we're talking usually, but we are going to talk about a that we're talking usually but we are going to talk about

a novel not a philosophical treatise or something we're going to talk about essentially

one of the first if not the first dystopian novels called We by Yevgeny Zamy-Zam yatin.

Now I want to say that I really like this novel and I think that it is very very influential.

So Samyathin was born in 1884 in Russia.

He was he died in 1937 in Paris and he was someone who was very much a contrarian I think I heard that he was pro

Bolsheviks before the revolution but against the Bolsheviks after the revolution so it's a

contrarian by temperament perhaps and he wrote this basically before the 1920s but it was not published in Russian until 1988.

So it was published in I think the US in 1924 and it wasn't published in the Soviet Union and

it is said that it is one of the first novels that was censored by the Soviet Union and then after this

novel there was a massive wave of censorship. So Zamyatin was someone who definitely influenced other dystopian writers because he is considered to be the originator of the genre like Haxley.

So Huxley apparently claims that it didn't influence him,

but Orwell wrote in a letter saying it did,

and I think it probably did.

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