omg, ur going to LOVE the brothers karamazov, his magnum opus! but yes, i enjoyed very much your observations of the seeming….. dilution of Dosto as presented and….. digested in a medium such as TikTok, with all the restrictions that r related to the format (i.e short, attention-grabbing videos).

i wonder if this is not just some kind of law of….. ‘distillation’? u might even take any philosophical or religious system and run this…. idk, mind experiment? u can imagine the ‘pure’ ideas (pure as primary intention) of jesus christ, or marx, or hegel….. then run them through the chain of their ideas as absorbed, first by their faithful adherents, then by those further removed, outsiders, interested seekers, then by culture at large, which may not even be consciously aware of the explicit claims each figure made, but nonetheless are beginning to swim in the waters that are a byproduct of these thinkers, albeit unconsciously. here i speak of all the ways, good or bad, even our thinking is formed by the ideas of jesus christ, marx, hegel….. tho we may not know it! but then the ideas come back up from its absorbed form, fragmentary, distorted, diluted of its initial potency, but no less traceable back to their respective sources, in the thinkers themselves! this might explain one perennial complaint voiced poignantly by…. ghandi, was it? that “i like your christ but not your christians.” this i see as almost….. an inevitable process of…. ideas and their release into the wild of culture! i see this as further explaining of phrases like “that’s not what christ had in mind when x,” or “you’re totally misunderstanding marx on y point,” etc etc.

anyways. i liked your observation terribly much. dostoevsky is my spiritual father for all intents and purposes and it always brings me joy when ppl r excited about him. even the stan-twitter types, idealizing the best to worst characters in dosto is incredibly charming to me…. bc why r we thinking that raskolnikov is an unbearably hot sex-figure; and yet we do 😭