Maybe one other forum member might be interested.
https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/dostoyevsky-the-modern-intelligentsia
It's insomnia notes (on history, political change, where we are, how we got here, where we're going, etc.) not essay, but perhaps a prolegommenon to a Spenglerian masterpiece (by which time I hope it's 'Dostoevsky').
(I must warn fellow pedants that DC gets off to a bad start with a spelling mistake in his first paragraph, 'wondered' for 'wandered', but recovers quickly. It could be a play on the homonym, of course: surely we all wandered around foreign cities wondering at them in our youth? Though for my epiphany I didn't fly to Naples but Interrailed to Tito's Belgrade, and the dog-eared novel in my pack was
Brave New World not
The Devils.)
Who knows, after this Lermontov might be back on the forum!
Anyway, DC's general tenor is...
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
