On his own time (written 1865), but a funny parallel with our own:
Our time may be characterized in these words: it has no opinion, … all opinions are tolerated, they all exist side by side; there is no general opinion, no common belief. … [E]verybody says anything that comes into his head, and the oddest opinion has all the rights of a citizen.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, from Dostoevsky: A Self-Portrait by Jessie Coulson
