Showing posts with label Dostoevsky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dostoevsky. Show all posts

TOLSTOY VS. DOSTOYEVSKY


At his new "Right-Wing English Teacher" YouTube page, Andy Nowicki discusses the two generally acknowledged giants of Russian literature, Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and their vastly divergent perspectives on modernity and its discontents.

ANDROID EXISTENCE

"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet."


In his classic, prophetic novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, American science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick depicted a future dystopia where the only way to determine the difference between humans and rogue, bio-engineered androids was empathy: the latter were incapable of experiencing and thus demonstrating it.