The Problem of Evil, Dystopia, and Dostoevsky's ‘The Brothers Karamazov' | Prof. Stephen Meredith
The Thomistic Institute
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Infinite Jest by Wallace David Foster Wallace
In Infinite Jest by Wallace David Foster Wallace, two of the characters named Marat and Steepey converse throughout the novel on a mountain outcropping outside of Tucson, Arizona. They function a little bit like a chorus in a Greek drama. Comment down what they see. This represents the human being as Imago Dei, made in the image of God, so that they are magnified enormously beyond their physical size. And I argue that this is also a response that can be made to Mustafa Moun in the brave new world. Technological endeavor is not to be discarded, yet it must be practiced with love, or it will destroy us.
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