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Cormac McCarthy has quickly became my favorite author. He stands as an
author committed to exploring the darkest side of humanity, in varied
ways, difficult to explore in traditional philosophy. For that, we
explore the hidden philosophical kernels embedded in his works.
Book's Discussed in Video:
Blood Meridian: amzn.to/3IoyFmV
No Country for Old Men: amzn.to/3V6NcLm
Suttree: amzn.to/3Tqopk6
The Passenger: amzn.to/48KJx96
The Road: amzn.to/3T8aPkj
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Timestamps:
0:00 Who is McCarthy?
6:46 Blood Meridian and Hobbes
10:29 The Epilogue
11:49 Violence & History
16:24 No Country For Old Men Dream Scene
18:00 The Eternal Recurrence of Violence
21:12 Existentialism of McCarthy
23:50 Reality Under Reality
28:32 McCarthy's Legacy
Views : 111,069
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Date of upload: Premiered Mar 2, 2024 ^^
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RYD date created : 2024-05-05T21:48:22.590814Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
1:25 is the beginning
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The Road is basically the final dream in No Country For Old Men put to a more literal and extensive narrative - the father carries the flame and passes it on to his son.
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Blood Meridian is one of those books that should be impossible. I've read it and reread it and still can't find the bottom. Thrilled to hear your perspective on it.
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The world needed this video. Thanks for making it.
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McCarthy is very skilled at forcing us to confront the depravity that resides at the core of humanity. But he does so without preaching. His writing is subtle enough to lead the reader to their own conclusion, but still it is a conclusion that McCarthy points us toward
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I've always found McCarthy to be something of a pessimistic optimist. What do I mean by that? Pessimistic because he always looks at the worst side of humanity. But optimistic because he doesn't let it make him lose his faith. Now, I've only read three of his works (No Country for Old Men, The Road, and All the Pretty Horses). After reading all of them, I was always a little shaken. But I've always recognized his fundamental message: Right is still right, and wrong is still wrong. No matter how much you try to delude yourself.
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The Road is one of those movies you only watch once. You don't forget it.
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“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else. You might think you could run away and change your name and I dont know what all. Start over. And then one mornin you wake up and look at the ceiling and guess who's layin there?”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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I've read a lot of books, but "Blood Meridian" is in a class all its own. Nothing else like it. Amazing and haunting.
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Suttree is such an overlooked masterpiece.
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You're a real one for using Richard Poe's audiobook version. The perfect book awaiting it's perfect orator.
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Right from page 1 of a Cormac novel, you immediately sense how the air is thin, the ground uneven & emotions - all dehydrated & packed away till The End. As a closet poet , he's like a mentor to me. A scary one tho 😮
Thank you for great video!
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Hobbes was writing in the 17th century not the 15th. He published Leviathan in 1651. I am mentioning it because as you said the historical context is key, and he was writing following the aftermath of the internecine conflicts that plagued the 17th century such as the English Civil War.
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Being a western geologist and grandson of a Nevada mining engineer and great-grandson of a Montana Forester I know exactly what McCarthy is saying. He is describing the lives of generations of men exploring and exploiting the land.
It describes a myriad of activities. The most obvious to me is the Discovery and exploitation of petroleum. First you have the exploration crews who drill the holes by striking their steel against The Rock to create fire from the Earth. They are followed by production crews who collect the petroleum which in a real sense are bones. Finally there are the people that do not make the holes or gather the bones or even look for the bones they are there to build the houses and stores, open the schools and whore houses all in service to the ones who make the holes and collect the bones. Drilling for oil, digging for coal, gold, silver, lead and copper. Drilling holes for water in the desert
And in my case literally drilling holes for pollution and then collecting those bones of long dead industrial practices so that those who don't seek or collect can build expensive condominiums for the non-seekers to thrive on top of the graves of industry past. And the drillers and The seekers of Bones and collectors of Bones have all moved on to the ends of the Earth until they themselves are bones.
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Once I hit the part of the book where the judge makes gunpowder from raw materials and the surprise and ambush the natives that are following them. They are all out of powder and resigned to death and he is like a god in that moment. Directing them to find the materials and orchestrating the synthesis of black powder while standing naked on top of a mountain, lightning in the backround. What a scene
I can’t wait for the unfilmable movie I think they should cast me as the kid
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Great video man. His work is so immense and dense, and nothing if not daunting. He’s my favourite author too. And was once upon a time when I was gonna untangle his theology from his texts for an honours project at uni but life didn’t allow for it. But here u are doing something similar. Respect
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Damn. That Tommy Lee Jones performance gave me the chills. I forgot how good that movie was. Need to watch it again
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Great watch.
Well assembled and thought out.
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McCarthy is probably the epitome of American literature, one of the few that held no punches back to tell the tale, as he wanted, uncompromised. You did it justice with your video, fantastic :) you got a new fan.
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