Dialectics of Decline

Dialectics of Decline

Refusing To Be Less

On the importance of being human

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Dec 23, 2025
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“@Grok summarize the book” the anonymous account said, in the replies of someone citing The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky as the greatest thing they’ve ever read. A microcosm of the post-intellectual, incurious, and downright depressing reality we are forced to live in today. Unfortunately a far from unique occurence, but one that’s come to s…

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