In a world that celebrates defiance and detachment, Dostoevsky offers a radical proposal: that truth begins not with pride, but with kneeling — with choosing to be seen in all our brokenness.

To repeat someone else's truth, even if it is correct, is to surrender the very thing that makes you human: your agency and autonomy. Razumikhin proposes that it's better to stumble through your own nonsensical beliefs than to puppet someone else.

Stoicism reminds us to stay awake, but Dostoevsky warns us about what happens when we don't.