Dostoevsky, the Possessed, and the Gulig Archipelago

Dostoevsky is amazing for this, because he describes a political scene scenario that's not much different than the one we find ourselves in now. He prophesies what will happen to a society if it goes down that road? And he was dead, exactly accurate. It's uncanny to read dostoevsky, the possessed, or the vis depending on the translation,. and then to read alexander solsniton's gulig archipelago. So it's quite remarkable....