O Idiota Dostoievski Direct

How do the "clever" people react to the Idiot? They lose their minds.

Because in the end, the only thing worse than being called an idiot for loving too much... is being praised as a genius for not loving at all. o idiota dostoievski

But Dostoevsky offers a terrifying counter-argument: Maybe the "idiot" is the only one who has solved the puzzle. How do the "clever" people react to the Idiot

Myshkin walks into a room where everyone is performing. The aristocrats are performing virtue. The businessmen are performing power. The desperate are performing dignity. Myshkin looks at them, sees straight through the performance, and does the one thing polite society cannot tolerate: sees straight through the performance