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Parent Post: Who here thinks @Tikvah should be banned from soj.ooo?
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8/18/2025, 6:20:26 PM
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How do you decide whether someone is insane?
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8/19/2025, 5:14:27 AM
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''Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being en dowed with such strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bub bles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperi ty, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself—as though that were so necessary—that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.'' - an excerpt from 'The Notes from Underground' by Dostoyevsky
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