The following passage was written in 1866 by Fyodor Dostoevsky describing the psychological condition in pre-communist Russia.
From Crime and Punishment
“He dreamt that the whole world was condemned to a terrible new strange plague that had come to Europe from the depths of Asia. All were to be destroyed except a very few chosen. Some new sorts of microbes were attacking the bodies of men, but these microbes were endowed with intelligence and will. Men attacked by them became at once mad and furious. But never had men considered themselves so intellectual and so completely in possession of the truth as these sufferers, never had they considered their decisions, their scientific conclusions, their moral convictions so infallible. Whole villages, whole towns and people went mad from the infection. All were excited and did not understand one another. Each thought that he alone had the truth and was wretched looking at the others, beat himself on the breast, wept, and wrung his hands. They did not know how to judge and could not agree what to consider evil and what good; they did not know whom to blame, whom to justify” (Dostoevsky, 1914/2011, pp. 547-548).
He describes a familiar scene.
We too have witnessed “madness” from an infection, so much so we even have new diagnostic terminology, Long Covid and Covid Brain Fog. He wrote how each man thought he possessed ‘the truth’ but no one could agree. This division also describes our current situation. The similarities are eerily striking.
Could Covid be this strange, new microbe from the depths of Asia OR the virus of Communism?
What is the connection and how could he have known?
It's all mixed up
It's all mixed up
It's all mixed up
"The Cars" (1978)
In 1848 the freemasons who paid for Karl Marx to write the Communist Manifesto also paid for the rioting in Paris, Berlin, and other cities. Certainly by the end of 1866 it was known to Doestoevsky. I do think he saw what was coming in general terms. God chooses His messengers.
That's an amazing quote.