Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Great Russian Novelist and Proto-Existentialist
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What About Dostoyevsky's Notes From the Underground?
In our modern society of hyper individualist competition, we're pitted against one another. So in the modern capitalist american society, many of his critiques still land with hundred % efficiency and accuracy. Ye, there's no doubt he would be horrified by consumer capitalism. I mean, consumer ism where everything is based on buying stuff, it would be the end point of his nightmare. Not even worse than utopian socialism, i think. Y there's a sort of empty nihilism inherent in consumerism. Ya an harri ae, absolutely.
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