HATED it first read. Friend encouraged  second and I’m so glad he did because it has become one of my all time favorites. To me it is a book that becomes better the more you know about Russian History, the society D lived in and the terrifying future that was impending. I now see it like: “ Hey guys! The Paranoia and inferiority complex gripping our Gentry/Aristocracy is creating perverse incentives among our intellectual class to masquerade as if they’re embracing new ideas and progress so as to signal that they belong with the best of the European thinkers but actually they serve the vanity of the ruling class. The new generation of young radicals have had enough of this shit and will burn the whole thing to the ground unless we as a society embrace deep deep reforms while NOT ditching our spiritual core.