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“And maybe we could do that by referring to the Grand Inquisitor in the Brothers Karamazov, as long as we put it together with Notes from Underground, which I just taught for a course. I did a course on literature in the meaning crisis, and so I that you use notes.”
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“People like Dostoevsky outlined in the late 1800s: in 'Notes from Underground', Dostoevsky famously pointed out that if we did bring about the socialist utopia and he described that as the endless opportunity to sit in pools of bubbling water, busy ourselves with the continuation of the species and eat nothing but cake, that human beings would break it all”