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Originally Posted by ni'k
it's sad that people believe in the cultural hegemony of SHIT like fg enough to assume noone would read or explore literature on their own if it wasn't referenced by seth mcfarlane.
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I personally got into Dostoyevsky because I was assigned to read Crime and Punishment in high school, and I really loved it so I picked up a few of his other novels.
I don't really think anyone saw Family Guy read Dostoyevsky because he was mentioned. That's just silly. And if someone wanted to, why not? Why decide not to read him because you heard about him first on Family Guy? You'd be completely cutting yourself off from a great novelist for a rather silly reason.
Family Guy is sort of a sickening reflection of our culture, in which we all sort of become nothing more but a shoddily put together collection of references, allusions, and memes. (At the end of Notes from the Underground, I think the Underground Man hints at this himself- saying that men engrossed in literature can't be real men, but just literary characters.)