His support of the Benefactor is, in essence, an act of faith. D-503 believes the government acts in his best interest, not because he has been presented with proof, but because he trusts OneState.

OneState celebrates a form of secular religion, in which citizens worship reason and an infallible god-king presides over all. As his pursuit of I-330 intensifies he often describes himself as a stranger. He reports, 'I saw how he grabbed her with his hairy paws' D-503 is so alienated from this half of his nature, he does not recognize himself (57). When he attacks I-330, he describes the event from the third person, as if his irrational self was another entity entirely. As his irrational tendencies assert themselves, D-503 becomes increasingly alienated from himself. His meeting with I-330 precipitates the emergence of D-503's irrational side, often depicted symbolically through his uniquely hairy hands. Individuals are both physically and symbolically alienated from the wild aspects of their nature. OneState builds a wall separating Numbers from the woods, which remain uncontrollable. The wilderness beyond the city and its free tribes represent this verboten, irrational side. In We, citizens are alienated from one half of the human experience: emotions, imagination and all other irrational elements are forbidden. At the end of We workers have their imaginations removed so they can function even more like machines. In OneState all human actions, even private ones have been integrated into a larger mechanism. Instead of building an entire chair, individual workers would perform limited duties, like sanding chair legs, tens of thousands of times. Taylor reduced labor to small, mechanical actions, so workers could be easily integrated into assembly lines. Taylor, the pioneer of work-time studies, throughout the text.

The Numbers in OneState even eat 'petroleum food,' just like machines consume gas or oil (22). As a result D-503 imagines himself as a small part in a larger machine. There is a precise, collective schedule that controls everything from when citizens to take walks, to how they have sex, to their morning routine.

Every bite of food must be accompanied by 'fifty statutory chews' (197). Every human action in OneState has been regimented and mechanized.

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