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Underground contra technocrats:
“Ingenuous people and active figures are all active simply because they are dull and narrow-minded…Here’s how: as a consequence of their narrow-mindedness, they take the most immediate and secondary causes for primary ones, and thus become convinced more quickly and easily than others that they have found an indisputable basis for their doings, and so they feel at ease…”
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“Ingenuous people and active figures are all active simply because they are dull and narrow-minded…Here’s how: as a consequence of their narrow-mindedness, they take the most immediate and secondary causes for primary ones, and thus become convinced more quickly and easily than others that they have found an indisputable basis for their doings, and so they feel at ease…”
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Underground then anticipates the Mont Pelerin Society and its rational choice theorists:“You’re laughing; laugh then, gentlemen, only answer me: has man’s profit been calculated quite correctly? Isn’t there something that not only has not been but even cannot be fitted into any classification? Because, gentlemen, as far as I know, you have taken your whole inventory of human profits from an average of statistical figures and scientifico-economic formulas…[But] a man who, for example, openly and knowingly went against those whole inventory would, in your opinion, be an obscurantist and or a complete madman, right?”
Dostoevsky is at his most prophetic in Notes From Underground.
“Well, and how am I, for example, to set myself at ease? Where are the primary causes on which I can rest, where are my bases? Where am I going to get them? I exercise thinking, and, consequently, for me every primary cause immediately drags with it yet another, still more primary one, and so on ad infinitum.”