after reading crime and punishment by dostoevsky, i started to notice sparkles of the main character, raskolnikov, resembling myself. while i partially disagree with his theory of classifying people into two groups — ordinary and extraordinary — where the latter are allowed to exceed the limits of freedom that ordinary people must obey, such as committing crimes for the greater good or even massacring nations, i still find some logic in his argument. i do believe that certain extraordinary “superman” figures exist, exempt from societal laws, while ordinary people — like most of us — are fated to follow the rules
quite frankly, referring to the term “ordinary people,” that dostoevsky pioneered, flashed a train of thoughts that shuffled through my memory. that is why i love reading as it allows one to compare, contemplate, and connect the things you know and eventually letting you create a new sort of thing, would it be a theory, innovation, art, or revolution
but i’m still trying to find that line in raskolnikov’s theory — the axis that separates the ordinary from the extraordinary. personally, i’d place myself just past the point of origin, going towards the extraordinary side
