O Idiota Dostoievski -

Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin is the "idiot." He has epilepsy, he has spent the last four years in a Swiss sanitarium cut off from society, and he returns to the corrupt, hyper-competitive world of Russian aristocracy with zero practical knowledge of how to lie.

The tragedy of The Idiot is that Myshkin cannot save anyone. The world isn't broken because people are ignorant; the world is broken because people choose the lie over the truth. We prefer Rogozhin’s violent passion to Myshkin’s gentle clarity because passion is exciting and clarity is boring. o idiota dostoievski

We are all trying very hard not to be idiots. Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin is the "idiot