O Idiota Dostoievski -

I think about Myshkin every time I see a post about "toxic positivity" or when someone says "you’re too nice."

We live in the age of the algorithm. We are taught to be strategic. We curate our social media feeds, we practice our "elevator pitches," and we hide our genuine emotions behind a wall of ironic memes and calculated indifference. o idiota dostoievski

We have pathologized kindness. We tell our children, "Don’t be a pushover." We tell our friends, "They don’t deserve your empathy." We have decided that to be good is to be naive; to be moral is to be a mark. I think about Myshkin every time I see