The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are people who take extreme pleasure in their irritable touchiness, and especially when it reaches (which always happens very quickly) the ultimate limit in them; in that instant

it even seems they would rather be offended than not offended.

This is a continuation from the first note. The more I read it the more I see it holding true in our present day society. This is the time where people first decide which views they will follow and then decide which media sources to look for validations.

how are they going to judge me for being unable to understand the true will and laws of providence?

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.