He was one of that numerous and diverse legion of vulgarians, feeble miscreates, half-taught petty tyrants who make a point of instantly latching on to the most fashionable current idea, only to vulgarise it at once, to make an instant caricature of everything they themselves serve, sometimes quite sincerely.
- Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment 1866
Dickens and Dosto were both like the very iron cast of today's conscientious young person
But your thread is frivolous. What do you want?
>>8994537
i don't know.. i guess a bunch of responses about how dostoevsky is for young schoolchildren and I'm a pleb is the most likely outcome.
But I genuinely believed this sort of behaviour was some new degeneracy developed very recently with the help of the internet, was surprised to see such an accurate description from 19C russia
>>8994524
>what were SJWs up to in the 1800s
Temperance movement. Or maybe they would be /pol/, hard to tell the difference.
>>8994546
Some of the Greeks already complained about this kind of behavior. It's really nothing new.
The pseuds look for the universal in Dostoevsky's particulars
>>8994595
Alcohol is ruining society