Personality is demarcated by choices. And, of course, the lack of personality is the inability to choose. I admit it is cozy to have the medium as an architect of reality: this is no less than exempting oneself from any responsibility. However, it is assuming submission, evidencing a myopic and very limited understanding of existence. Raskolnikov is not the corollary of an unjust and oppressive medium, but the portrait of a conscious action and its consequences. It is good to remember Viktor Frankl: the human being is the reaction to circumstances; the final act vetoes any response, but the rest of the piece will always give way to action.
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