embarrassed

Before the period ended, we were asked what we thought the point of reading Notes from the Underground was, and if the book was going to impact our life. Honestly, I think the book is a training method for strengthening the analytical part of our brain, but I really don’t think it is going to change my life that much. If anything, my idea of religion has changed, but then I realized it is just as unbelievable as evolution. At first, Dostoyevsky had me sold with evolution, but then he also shows that evolution is just as unreliable as religion. Another topic discussed was the idea that we try to or at least pretend to be offended when someone we dislike is talking. Anything we can do to justify what they said as offensive, we do; it’s probably the weirdest and most humiliating concept we have come across so far in Dostoyevsky.  

-Morgan Mills