Pasta wrote:I'm troubled admitting this, but in some ways this has been the brunt of some conversations I've had in the past 2 years. This internet thing, it's encouragement of De-sensitization, existential "Objectivity", narcissism, and nihilism, it's troubling.
The first thing that came to mind when I read that kid's spiel was, "I wonder what someone like Dostoyevsky would have to say about all this," wishing of course that he was still alive to write a book about it (w/o the heavy-handed religious sermonizing).
So, while using google to spellcheck "Smerdyakov" (from Brothers Karamzov) I came across an astute analysis of this character that I thought was strangely fitting after reading the internet trolls article:
SPOILER ALERT, for the plot of Karamazov.