Thought of the Night reading Dostoevsky 2

Dostoevsky's thesis is that the world is not a happy place full of goodness. Instead, it is filled with incompetence, stupidity and evil, and the best we can do is struggle to make it less bad.

What a way to look at the world. As with any way of looking at the world, there are causes and effects.

If one has gone through a lot of shit in life, like Dostoevsky did, one is likely to at least contemplate the feelings and philosophies that say the world is shit.
If one were to feel that most canteen food is rubbish, one is going to associate canteen food with rubbish, which is negative.