Nikolay Chernyshevsky, born on this day in 1828, was a Russian journalist, novelist, and socialist philosopher who authored the influential novel "What Is to Be Done?", an inspiration for the pamphlet by Vladimir Lenin.
While attending Saint Petersburg University, Chernyshevsky became politically radicalized, developing revolutionary, democratic, and materialist views. As a young man, he sympathized with the 1848 revolutions throughout Europe.
From 1851 to 1853, he taught Russian language and literature at the Saratov Gymnasium and openly expressed his beliefs to students, some of whom later became revolutionaries.
In 1862, he was arrested and confined in the Fortress of St. Peter and Paul, where he wrote his widely influential novel "What Is to Be Done?" The novel was an inspiration to many later Russian revolutionaries, who sought to emulate the novel's hero Rakhmetov, who was wholly dedicated to the revolution, ascetic in his habits, and highly disciplined.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was so bothered by the political and psychological ideas expressed in the book that he wrote his "Notes from Underground" as a critical reaction against them.
Chernyshevsky was a dominant intellectual figure of the 1860s revolutionary democratic movement in Russia despite spending much of his later life in exile to Siberia, and was later praised by figures such as Karl Marx, Georgi Plekhanov, and Vladimir Lenin.
"But does it really help if a person doesn't realize what he lacks, or, if he does, he insists that he doesn't need it at all? That's an illusion, a fantasy. Human nature is stifled by reason, circumstances, and pride. It keeps silent and doesn't make itself known to one's consciousness, all the while silently doing its work of undermining life."
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky
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The anti-15 mibute cities people are so funny to me. The greatest oppression they've ever faced is hearing someone suggest there should be a grocery store within walking distance.
As somebody who learned about the concept in geography class and just kinda shrugged like "yeah that would be nice, no shit we should design cities to be accessible to everybody and have reasonable distances between things, literally nobody disagrees with this (or so I thought)" and then promptly forgot about it, the whole thing around it was completely bizarre.
Legitimately absurd.
It's like they're flipping through random school textbooks and picking concepts to get mad at at random. "God fucking damn it, I hate the... Pauling scale of electronegativity that these libs are promoting so much! The woke crowd has gotta stop talking about... the moment of inertia of geometric objects! All this discussion of... the functions of the cell membrane's proteins and lipids are doing so much harm to our children! Somebody really needs to stop all this nonsense about... volcanic eruption classification systems!"
hearing that somebody has strong opinions against 15-minute cities is, to me, like hearing that somebody has strong opinions against the quadratic formula or something. like, what the hell are you even talking about at this point? it's the contrarian brainworms that underpin flat-eartherism extended to every subject and concept
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Can they get good names too, please?
should obviously be :a-girl:
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it's my kitty's birthday! he was being really picky about his breakfast this morning
If you nerds liked Oppenheimer, remember to watch the sequel its even better
ShowOppenheimer: Makes civilization-destroying weapon, whines about how he's become death, gets called a "fucking cretin" by Truman.
spoiler
Doctor Serizawa: Makes civilization-destroying weapon, uses it to kill Godzilla, kills himself along with it to prevent anyone from recreating it.
They're remaking the original! Godzilla Minus One is the title I think
Edit: Here's the trailer
If you look at the longer history, the BBC has always been a conservative entity. But I didn't really notice until Corbyn and later Covid.
Honestly it could be. Since Corbyn and later the anti-China stuff, I've been making a real effort to ignore the BBC.
I used to be really good about "reading the news". Now I just scroll through Hexbear and Twitter. What do you do??
They're the official propaganda outlet of one of the cruelest empires in history.
I hate everything. I tried to leave and I found a motel and you know what they said. WE DONT SERVE TO LOCALS. WE DONT SERVE TO LOCALS. There just no fucking leaving and I had the god damn money to. Why. WHY. Then I couldn't find anywhere and im back home and just WHY. WHY. We DONT SERVE TO LOCALS DONT YOU KNOW? WHY. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm just going to sleep and pretend I don't exist. But god damn. WE DONT SERVE TO LOCALS! and I had the money. I just wanted to get away for the damn night.
Just want to say but it's really fucking stupid that THEY DONT SERVE TO LOCALS. There just no escape I guess. I'll stop shitting on this thread now. But guess what.. they. dont. serve.. to LOCALS!
This is very weird. The motels and hotels in my city of course also serve locals.
You can have lots of reasons to stay in the motel, none are the business of the motel owners. The US(?) is a weird place. In the past for moral reasons some motels didn't rent out rooms to unmarried people and women (like in the early 50s).
Hope you find a nice mini vacation you sought in time.
You did the best you could given what sounds like a tough situation
I hope your dad isn't going to be too bad in the future
When you damn the domestic abuse victims just to own the adulterers.
Random fact of the day: When Orwell snitched on Paul Robeson he referred to him as "anti-white"
All the "please stuff being genocidal to my people" guys are anti-white. You could Tweet "we should not shoot black kids as much" and you'd be called the most racist person in the world.
we need a better name than Gen Alpha.
Hope about GenPlague? Or Gendemic?
Lemmy gets my blood pressure up, can't look at that trash anymore. It's sad how ingrained the liberalism has become over there.
So many cute bees and bumblebees are harvesting the flowers on my balcony. Feels like having friends 🐝 🐝 🐝
Apparently the bees will learn your appearance and communitcate to the rest of the hive that you're chill and not a threat. They're pretty cool folks.
There are two wolves inside of me and they are cuddling.