Reading Devils, Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Part Two, Night.
FD writes of a famous provincial writer seeking to ingratiate himself with a circle of wholly insignificant soi-disant revolutionaries in the belief they might represent the future of the country.
As though one might seriously have thought in the 1960s that the future of America might belong to the likes of Bill Ayers.
Some delusional people think they speak for God and will create a Universal Caliphate.
Others think they represent, or even are, a generation.
And others think they are the future rulers of the country and will make a revolution.
The latter two delusions were common in America in the 1960s and 70s.
To this day their victims have never recovered.
Nor have their admirers, fellow travelers, or dupes, for the most part.
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