/lit/ - Literature

>>22794303
Funny and true for many men. However, the real point I thought was a sort of existentialist, proto-Heidegger, mystic type message. The idea of the struggles of modern intellectual being in the world and human hubris and weakness which can only be solved through “active love” of the world and responsibility of everyone for everyone. The need for Christlike men like Alyosha to exist as a type of Saint fighting a hopeless lost cause and to struggle against evildoers without hate. The idea that we should cry “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing!” That in the struggle to purify our own souls we should adopted the perspective of Christ. To see others and the world the way God seems them. To struggle against ourselves without hope of reward, to live poetically or beautifully in other words. To not try to understand the world or hate the world solely by rational methods like Ivan. Because ultimately man can not save himself from himself with his intellect but In spiritual struggle and love we will all be redeemed.

Or maybe I am talking a lot of nonsense but that’s what I took out of it coming from a more Buddhist 21st century American perspective.