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The Culturist @the_culturist_ - In 1867, Dostoevsky stood before this painting in Basel's Kunstmuseum: Hans Holbein's "Dead Christ."
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The painting depicts Christ's emaciated, decaying body so convincingly that it rattled Dostoevsky. He stood paralyzed before it until his wife dragged him away, and later wrote it into his novel "The Idiot."
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In the novel, a replica hangs in the home of the nihilist Rogozhin. When the protagonist Prince Myshkin sees it, he despairs:
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"That picture! Why, a man's faith might be ruined by looking at that picture!"
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Dostoevsky's intent was to show how different characters respond to the picture. Though it shakes him, the prince (a naive optimist and the titular "holy fool") is able to see through the depressing image and identify something worthy of worship. Rogozhin and others, however, see nothing but a merciless world, and it only hardens them more.
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The novel also contains the famous phrase, "beauty will save the world," spoken indirectly by Prince Myshkin. This is not some hopeful platitude, but a challenge to all readers.
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Beauty will save the world, but this hinges on our capacity to see it even through plunging darkness. The spectator can observe beauty through the light or darkness of his own mind, and that is his choice to make.
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Dostoevsky later wrote that Hell is the suffering of being unable to love — to paraphrase his contemporary, Leo Tolstoy, "it is not beauty that makes us see love, but love that makes us see beauty."
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This is the challenge that Dostoevsky saw in Holbein's art and that he drew out in each of his great novels. The challenge is to confront one's Christian convictions with everything that seeks to tear them down, and yet to emerge the other side with an even stronger assertion of love and faith.
https://x.com/the_culturist_/status/2016136640175984762
Disclose.tv @disclosetv - NEW - "Crying Horse" toy becomes a bestseller in China ahead of Year of the Horse celebrations, after a factory worker accidentally sewed the smile on upside down — Telegraph
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/2016253894616072446
Doc T MD/PhD @lewistlc - This is not grounds for firing. This is grounds for arrest for attempted murder. Succinylcholine is a paralytic used only in emergency settings because immediately after injecting, patients are paralyzed and must be intubated . Without intubation, they die.
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Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok
Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.
Any comment @VCUHealth? How can you have such a vile person working with patients? How can anyone feel safe at your facilities if you employ such people?
https://x.com/lewistlc/status/2015950971487101108
DOQ @doqholliday - Recipe for death:
1. Go to Minnesota
2. Find where ICE is hanging out
3. Make sure you bring your gun and two mags of rounds
4. Go bother ICE or police
5. Resist them
6. Talk trash to them
7. Taunt them
8. When they tackle you reach for stuff in your pants pockets. Either your gun or mags
You're welcome
(this post is sarcasm)
https://x.com/doqholliday/status/2016265564034134049
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