You are, as Dmitri Karamazov says, of a broad nature where “the shores converge, here all contradictions live together Here the devil is struggling with God, and the battlefield is the human heart." Where Dmitri would “narrow him down” (Devil knows even what to make of him) the broadness of the human spirit and psyche, thrills me (as it did, with fear and trembling, for Dostoevsky) and, which, from what I’ve gathered, it does for you.įor the last few months I have been watching your Biblical Series of lectures, your Maps of Meaning lectures, as well as your interviews with Joe Rogan (I adore him) as well as your conversations with Sam Harris (still limited by his ‘Euclidean’ mind). The fact that you love Dostoevsky, even quoting from Demons which most people overlook, (but which I believe is even better than Crime and Punishment purely for the monumental characters of Kirillov and Stavrogin – proto-Ivan Karamazovs), and that you perceive and understand his prophetic brilliance, reassures me. When I read The Brothers Karamazov as a heavily indoctrinated Christian, at 20 years old, it shook the very foundations of my ontology.
Nietzsche said of Dostoevsky, “He is the only psychologist from which I have anything to learn” – I’ve no doubt you’ve heard/read that quote many times. All of the thinkers who I admire the most, have looked to Dostoevsky as the most profound writer of all literature.
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