fyodor dostoevsky as culture jammer

"The world has proclaimed freedom, now more loudly than ever; but what do we find in that freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and suicide! The world says: 'You have needs--satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more.' This is the worldy doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder; for while the poor have handed all of these right, they have not been given the means to enjoy them. Some claim that the world is gradually becoming united, that it will grow into a brotherly community as distances shrink and ideas are transmitted through the air. alas you must not believe that men can be united in this way. To consider freedom as directly dependent on the number of man's requirements and the extent of their immediate satisfaction shows a twisted understanding of human nature, for such an interpretation only breeds in men a multitude of senseless stupid desires and habits and endless preposterous inventions. People are more and more moved by envy now, by the desire to satisy their material greed and by vanity..."

From brothers karamazov: A deathbed speech/rant by a russian monk. could have as well been a rant by latte liberal like myself.