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>reads some socialist papers and letters
>gets sentenced to death before a firing squad in Siberia
>Execution is stayed at the very last minute while standing in the firing line
>Serves an additional 4 years of hard labor in Siberia before a term of compulsory military service
>people on Facebook think they're oppressed by politicians while they're free to bash them
>21st century society praises YA and degenerate authors who've never truly struggled a day in their lives.

Jesus, what would Dosty say if he could see us now?

>> No.8937001

>>8936983
The french got rid of freedom to read a little while ago. Some frenchman got 2 years for reading an isis propaganda

>> No.8937011
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>>8936983
He'd think your idolization of struggle was embarrassing. Dostoevsky was very interested in the connection between the real and the ideal world, aka the ego. To him, people that were 'romantics' and pursued ideals over the real were fools, see Notes, Demons, and The Idiot. Romanticizing struggle and turning it from an every day part of life, whether in the 21st century or prehistoric times, into an ideal to be pursued is to miss the point of Dostoevsky's opinion.

>> No.8937015

>>8937011
>implying the social justice movement and "progressives" aren't the ones pursuing ideals over the real

>> No.8937022

>>8936983
He'd probably have a field day posting in /r9k/

>> No.8937027

>>8937022
Oh my god, what I'd pay to watch that

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>>8937015
>implying the social justice movement and "progressives" aren't the ones pursuing ideals over the real
So? Just because one group is run by pure ideology does not mean their opponents are not. Dostoevsky would find our society strange because everyone seems to walk around with their head in the clouds. Conservatives and liberals today have a tenuous connection to reality, the type of behavior that Dostoevsky satirized.

>> No.8937927

>>8937022
yeah the frogposting 'vidya'-playing anime-watching jug-pissers ARE LITERALLY Dostoevsky

They are literally the exact same type