Tuesday post

                It was very insightful to read Dostoevsky explore the man of acute consciousness in greater detail. I could see how the man of consciousness sees no justice in revenge. The act itself is never committed by clever men as they see through revenge as merely an act committed by men of action that has no real, justifiable cause (or effect for that matter). What the man of acute consciousness retains is a fatal indecisiveness towards the entire ordeal. I feel like I understand what Dostoevsky is saying here as although the mouse will never strike back, he will be left with doubt and resentment in his heart. The mouse must then crawl back in its hole where it is consumed with spite. I can see why these few pages are as important as it is in a way chronicling how one becomes a man of the underground.  

Some of it is even painful to read as he goes into detail on how the mouse will recall his inaction in his head over and over and indeed even add unpleasant details to the event. Considering that your brain does this kind of stuff every day by filling in information that never happened; I can see how Notes from the Underground is considered an in depth exploration of the human psyche.  

                Dostoevsky goes on to talk about the stone wall again, which he determines to be the laws of nature, the deductions of natural science, and mathematics. All these things I thought to be the stone wall for the men living in Dostoevsky's time , although I am sure that the people that embrace such ideas as their wall has only increased. I am guessing that Dostoevsky is telling the reader that these walls exist without your consent but you do not have to embrace them if you do not want to. You can draw correlations between what he said and creationists today that refute science and reason despite all the evidence against them.