O Idiota Dostoievski < 2024 >

Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin is the "idiot." He has epilepsy, he has spent the last four years in a Swiss sanitarium cut off from society, and he returns to the corrupt, hyper-competitive world of Russian aristocracy with zero practical knowledge of how to lie.

He tells a woman she is beautiful when it is socially awkward to do so. He forgives an enemy before the enemy has apologized. He offers help to the man who just tried to ruin him. o idiota dostoievski

We have pathologized kindness. We tell our children, "Don’t be a pushover." We tell our friends, "They don’t deserve your empathy." We have decided that to be good is to be naive; to be moral is to be a mark. Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin is the "idiot

How do the "clever" people react to the Idiot? They lose their minds. He offers help to the man who just tried to ruin him

Dostoevsky calls it hell.