Okay well im soo confuse with the story already, but I'm going to give this a shot! "Wheels must turn steadily, but can not turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as sturdy as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment." To me this meant that there should be some kind of certain power that can control everyone. It reminded me of 1984, which took me a while to understand too. From my point of view this was Mustapha’s way of interpreting totalitarianism, and that the government always knows best no matter what the situation is. Mustapha said that those who experienced strong feelings were unstable once again like 1984 when the two main characters fall in love. When he refers to these kinds of people he say, “No wonder these poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy” (41). According to Mustapha, family, impulse, feeling, desire, and monogamy require such strong feelings that cause people to become unstable and they therefore need someone to “tend” to them. A hypnopaedic proverb said, “…every one belongs to every one else” (40).. This statement kind of confused, but I think it also cleared some things up for me in a way too. Monogamy can't be alive if everyone belonged to someone, because exclusive relationships wouldn't be good. The same thing goes with the family situation I think. Technically you don't really have a family your just related to one another in theory. There is no proof of you being related by blood. This causes people to want to do things like have a family and a special someone, because they aren't suppose to. Just like teenagers. To me the more you tell these kids NO you can not do that the more they are going to want to do it. But these people have the choice just like teenagers to decide whether they will be smart and obey their parents or the government for instance. Or disobey them.
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