[sauropod]

Bkmk

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk

[Orosius]

Aka THE POSSESSED. I prefer the Constance Garnett translation.

[Savage Beast]

"Sickness of soul" describes very well the serious mental disease gripping Western Civilization in pandemic proportions, the sickness known variously as "wokeism," "liberalism," and "progressivism," and fundamental to the present Democrat Party and its determination to destroy the USA.

The crime ridden, squalid, filthy, dangerous, drug dazed hellholes that cities have become, where this "sickness of the soul" has paralysed large percentages of the population spiritually, morally, intellectually, and politically, stand in stark contrast to the beautiful, enlightened cities of America's past and in places today unafflicted by the pandemic.

One must be severely afflicted by this "sickness of the soul" not to see the contrast and understand the etiology, pathogenesis, and morbidity.

This "sickness of the soul" pandemic is as dangerous and devastating as any that has every afflicted the world, including the black plague pandemics of centuries past, and it threatens to be far more deadly.

[Savage Beast]

I adore Dostoevsky. His is definitely one of the greatest minds ever to grace the world and his writings among my favorites. The translations of great Russian works by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are magnificent.

[Savage Beast]

"a form of self-deification that is inseparable from self-destruction"

"wishes to be free of all 'prejudices,' including the one that leads a decent soul to prefer good to evil"

"True freedom, Shigalyov insists, can only be found in “perfect despotism.” Everything must be levelled since high aspiration, spiritual or intellectual, gives rise to dreaded inequalities. Human greatness, high and noble aspiration, must be crushed and beaten out of the human soul."

Familiar?

[Savage Beast]

'moral nihilism and political insanity:

children who have been taught by their teachers to laugh at God,

lawyers who shamelessly defend the deeds of murderers for fear of being insufficiently progressive,

schoolboys who kill “just to see how it feels,”

academics who defend murder as either a sign of insanity or material necessity, but never of evil.

"an intelligentsia that hates God, morality, country, and simple decency"'

Familiar?

[Savage Beast]

"The diagnostic genius of this master work is self-evident and its ability to bring us back from the brink of nihilistic destruction is apparent to those with eyes to see."

Pray for the enlightenment of those who are blind before it's too late.

[dadfly]

haven’t read it, but will put the book on my reading list. the war goes on until the day of Jesus Christ. thx.

[Chicory]

Wow, I read that and followed some links... that was like a deep muscle massage for the mind! Thank you!