My most recent piece of Substack.

On Dostoevsky's Youths, Warnings, and Dream:

These are the young men of today, who consider this life is all there is, so we ought to either get busy living or get busy dying. They are the self-pleasing nihilists, the rotted fruits of a decadent society that no longer knows up from down or right from wrong.

After those two made their crass remarks, Dostoevsky wrote that a third suddenly arose and said, with piercing insight:

“Why have we got so many people hanging or shooting themselves – as if we’d jumped off our roots, as if the floor had slipped from under everyone’s feet?”

https://josephhamrick.substack.com/p/dostoevskys-youths-dostoevskys-warning