We've Reached 'Russian Novel' Levels of Concern
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Yes, excellent. I hope Ax reads it.
A few quotes to pique interest:
"They cannot escape because they do not know they are prisoners."
"This was what I found most jarring, the cognitive dissonance, the inability to surrender an ideological commitment in the face of overwhelming evidence of that commitment’s illogic—including one’s own misery."
"That doubt, that suspicion that we may be wrong—about something we believe, about those with whom we disagree—is the only thing that can save us."
The article is well worth reading, especially if you have some little background in Russian literature of the period. As with his students, it was an undergrad course a long time ago for me.
