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- Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote Crime and Punishment in 1866
- It was a novel about “a murderer who kills simply because he can”.
- No, the novel doesn’t say anything about how well that went for the murderer. Or explain why he killed. Actually, remembering the fucking point of the book is Putinist propaganda or something.
- Anyways, this novel about how murder is good and how you can totally get away with it says a lot about contemporary Russia.
- No, countries doesn’t change over time. It’s all in the brainpan.
- Putin is Rodion Raskolnikov and that’s why he’s become a moustache-twirling cartoon villain.
In her rewording of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Russian classic novel Crime and Punishment, a novel about a murderer who kills simply because he can, Ogarkova calls Russia a culture where you have “crime without punishment, and punishment without crime”. The powerful murder with impunity; the victims are punished for no reason.
This is as idiotic as claiming that you can learn why the Bush regime invaded Iraq by studying the shape of Darth Vader’s helmet.
“Dostoevsky’s Russian classic novel Crime and Punishment, a novel about a murderer who kills simply because he can“
What?
Having read zero words of Crime and Punishment I can say with 100% certainty there’s a lot more to it than that
Freudian analysis offers an answer
Freudian analysis always offers an answer. Kind of like fortune cookies.
I cannot stress this enough; Freud’s only contribution to psychology is being so egregiously wrong that it motivated people to do real science to disprove him out of sheer spite. No serious people in psychology, psychiatry, or neuroscience take Freud seriously and anyone who does is a quack.
The mission statement of “The Agora Institute”:
Strengthening global democracy through powerful civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue
Bunch of feds, opinion discarded
Not only does he have to do Nazi apologia, he also can’t help trivialising the Holocaust by equating liberal podcasters to Jews in Nazi Germany:
When not bringing humanitarian aid to the front lines, Ogarkova presents a podcast together with her husband, the philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko. It’s remarkable for showing two people thinking calmly while under daily bombardment. It reminds me of German-Jewish philosophers such as Walter Benjamin, who kept writing lucidly even as they fled the Nazis.
So TheGuardian is just straight up, mask off doing Nazi propaganda now
