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"Though much is taken, much abides..." - Tennyson. His goneness is merely physical. His art is here, not gone. His ideas are very ungone. I only hope his enduring presence will forgive my use of quotation marks.

There IS no God to wrestle with ... all we EVER wrestle with is our Own individual nature ...

Just read my first McCarthy novel, Suttree. Great novel, very rich, parts of which went right over my head, but nevertheless a book I plowed through in satisfying ways. Pretty grim book -- not sure I saw the humor that others have found in it. But thanks for a great discussion. I’ll be listening to more. Upon finishing it, I agreed with Suttree’s (McCarthy’s) father. Suttree’s very escape to freedom in the netherworlds of Knoxville was made possible by those same people and their life choices that his father applauds and his son seems to disdain. Each diner that McCarthy loves was built with a loan from a banker who shows up every day at his office. Architects, engineers, construction workers, cops, city public works and maintenance workers, street pavers, cooks, waitresses - they all made that diner possible as a place for you to find your romantic community and freedom. They did so by showing up to work every day. Without them, we'd all be living in mudhuts. So leave the workaday world, if that’s what you feel you need to do, but let’s not get romantic about the choice.

It's one of the best videos I have had the privilege of viewing and listening to. Now I need to read these books. Well done!

Brilliant work mate.

Well. You got my follow. I'll watch the rest now and hope you make more. You remind me of the channel called "Like Stories Of Old." That's a better compliment than maybe you know yet.

Don't need who needs to hear rmthis, but Quinton Tarantino needs to do Blood Meridian.

i will say this theres a paddern from nothing came everything from there to you can guess whats the will to power

where are these mountains of texas?

I wouldn’t be surprised if All the Pretty Horses was the book that finally brought him more mainstream attention at least partially because of the deceptively cute-sounding title.

Do you watch write conscious? This is fantastic by the way.

Nice! Loved the experiment, very interesting. Also, great explanation of the concept. Just tried to sum it up under 60 seconds today on my channel, but boi was that a task! Nietzsche is too briliiatnt to fit in just one minute. Great video man!

Your God and Angleics are Malevolent-Bullies

Last great writer you say? 🤨

Blood Meridian is from 1985. Rly enjoying the video, thank you

Hey this is a freakin good video bro

His writing is mesmerizing, until it ends in bleak despair. How messed up is that?

❤simply beautiful i realy enjoyed the video the info the sound the selection .thank you ❤

I had no idea he passed until NYE when they included him in the in memoriam list. I cried 😭😭

Lore of The Mysterious Mind Of Cormac McCarthy (America's Last Great Writer) momentum 100

I offer instead an alternative biographical interpretation of “Cormac” (who can blame him I suppose for not wanting to be known as “Charlie McCarthy”, during an era where that name was UNIVERSALLY associated with a famous ventriloquist’s dummy of the same name who’s character was that of a pretentious juvenile flirt. Actually … kind of a mirror of Cormac’s own pompous adoption of some alleged pure Irish aristocracy of blood that the name “Cormac” was supposed to represent. McCarthy is the classic upper middle class nihilist who both refuses to grow up and adopt his parents bourgeois values and contribute something positive to society, but chooses instead to live like a bum, but the pretentious intellectual prince of the bums, because even while he rejects his parents bourgeois lifestyle, he can never quite bring himself either to identify with or completely associate with the destitute or the working class people either and adopt their lifestyle going forward, and fully embrace those who HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO LIVE THAT WAY (McCarthy’s solidarity misanthropic and anti-social lifestyle he made clear frequently was ALWAYS BY CHOICE. It seems it suited his art of course, but his pompous “simplicity” was always lived so as to avoid the responsibilities of the class his intellect was borrowed from, while he used that same intellect to live a life above and apart from those powerless people that were the basis of his lower class characters that he looked upon so ironically and unsympathetically as beneath him for being consumed in their actual lives by daily issues of no historical consequence… for only he could see the greater, almost mythic significance their sick twisted lower class actually represented in the story of US exceptionalism as he saw it. The truth is his father was an upper middle class lawyer and immigrants and sees the progressive movement that seeks to empower laboring people as somehow beneath him and “phony” but also representing of some great loss of the purity of a bygone era of the “common rugged individual man” when technology, politics, civilization and bureaucracy weren’t employed to settle people’s differences, but rather, direct violent confrontation was used for its alleged “purifying” and cleansing effect that settles things via direct confrontation. Such bourgeois fascist-adjacent romantic nonsense! And McCarthy couldn’t seem to bring himself either to fully embrace the values of the ruling class and side with the growing new conservative movement either and their aristocracy of wealth. A self-imposed misanthropic nihilist. And he wasn’t the first of course. Many writers had been suspicious of the the progressive claims of the improvability of man in previous generations. Dostoevsky was one, for his time and place. Mirabeau in the early 20th century in the leadup to WWI, and Huysman (“Agaisnt Nature) both in French and Joseph Conrad in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in English. Disillusioned middle class writers turning to nihilism is nothing new. And McCarthy also shows he distrusts civilization, and regards it merely as something that delays what he sees as the inevitable violent confrontation to come and the purging of these ugly emotions which he seems pessimistically to believe are forever part of human nature and cannot be grown out of through compromise, discussion and mutual respect. We’re truly better off with him gone. Read the books. Understand the danger his and allure of his eloquence represents. Warn everyone who’ll listen about what I’ve just told you. McCarthy is a dangerous last sample of a dying generation that we are better off without in an era when the violence he portrays as politically purifying can now bring about the destruction of cities and countries. He is himself I suspect a psychically damaged self-loathing member of the mid-20th century American bourgeoisie … a singularly PRIVILEGED GENERATION OF PEOPLE … and he seeks to encourage the violent confrontation between the past and the future as a means of achieving resolution of some sort. He’s a pessimistic misanthrope whose beautiful sentences while intoxicating carry with them a poisoned message to the middle class who seem to love him so much. Fear the future he says. Mythologize a past that might not even have existed as I depict it. Embrace the violent palingenesis and do the work of the invisible ruling class, in the false sick belief that the “inferior” races and peoples can still be swept away at the cultural interfaces as a means of taking one’s “rightful” place as the new heirs to the ruling class as the sick and decrepit of the preceding generations die away under the weight of their own lassitude, inactivity and decadence. He was the most dangerous kind of nihilist of all … the post-modern nihilst. He wove a tapestry of violence depicting acts of such cruelty and transgressions of all manner of American morals, but as the very means by which the present we live in was created. And he would seem to imply the existence of this present moment is reason enough to seek to continue the methods by which we got here, as long as we employ the purified versions of them, unsullied by progressive ideals that foolishly seek to “improve” people by some plan that is not entirely seeking pure self interest. The world of his imigination is long gone. And it was a sick, twisted, oppressive, cruel world when it did once exist. If it did once exist. It’s hard to know with McCarthy for he clearly has adopted the post-modern notions, but in a reactionary conservative manner. We’re better off with him gone. Read the books. Understand the danger and allure his stark eloquence represents. He doesn’t build up or encourage understanding or encourage even self-respect of humanity itself. Warn everyone who’ll listen about what I’ve just told you. But we have lost nothing of lasting value with his passing other than to mark the fact he represented an epitome of a demented trope; the reactionary post-modernist.

He was a genius

This is an amazing video but please for the love of god it’s pronounced PAUSE-IT, Hero’S Journey, ARKEType, KELTIC, SENSORY

Increble vid. Thank you.

The fact that he died June 13 is a fair sign to his literature and may be gnostic thinking.

Beautiful video.

Let’s talk about the vampire in Blood Meridian.

Glory to the Holy Scriptures of François Roddier, the Thermodynamics of Evolution and overall Jean Marc Jancovici's role of energy in modern society. Jancovici is not very active in English though. Both are decels though, despite having understood everything.

The sunset limited has been burnt into my mind for the last fourteen years. I think about it all the time.

McCarthy didn’t mind his wives spending their time working to support him.

Nick Land came up with "Techno-Capital", while "Techno-capital machine" is, I think, only what Beff says. In the former case it's a more theory laden notion, something noumenal, while Beff refers to the process that does and will do its thing. Relatedly, as for the Connor debate, I saw Connor claiming that Land says Capital becomes sentient, but that attribution seems dubious to me. Not that it matters regarding the point he's making. And I know Wikipedia says the term Accelerationism was coined in 2010 - however in a non-academic context I think the word goes back to a 70's sci-fi novel. Lastly, the CCRU founder's name is Sadie, not Sandy. So you end the video somewhat critical, but not in the way I've heard the critics of the "movements" speak. In the end, where do you fall on the spectrum? The volume is rather low, I'd 2x the audio bar. Nice vid, keep it up.

Helpful…Thank You You did not try to provide too many answers, but pondered some questions and possibilities - no wonder he did not do interviews, for in the end, when it comes to the unconscious, there really are few answers in the long run - it does not speak - I wonder if our unconscious is God?

Comment for engagement. Good work dude, keep it up!

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The only way out...is through. The status quo sucks. Lets accelerate into the future of abundance

Texas? Mountains of Texas??? hahahahahhahaa It was East Tennessee, dude. And no, he didn't go to the university of Texas either. It was the Univeristy of Tennessee in Knoxville. Several of his books specifically mention Knoxville, Tuckaleechee and Sevierville and no, none of those places are in Texas. They're all near Knoxville, TN. His family had moved to Knoxville from Rhode Island in 1937. How did you get this sooooo wrong? hhahahahaha

Easy on the ear. Thank you.

He went on Oprah because racist white guys love black women

James Ellroy is alive and well

Cormac was a larger than life figure. You made a good attempt to present him to the larger world. Thanks for your insights!

Thomas Mann is utterly wrong, as Jordan Peterson is regarding Will to Power. Will to Power can be rephrased as "Volition TOWARDS the eminence of body and mind" (borrowing the definition of power given by Hobbes.) So, Will To Power is an act of our volition to do things that enhance our intellectual, psychological, physical capacities to do greater things, it is the constant overcoming of obstacles, starting from our own inner obstacles (man must overcome himself). Nietzsche is not misoginistic, since he uses the term man explicitly referring to the "TYPE" man, that is, all of us belonging to the homo Sapiens species.

Was mc carthy an atheist??

“A weighty soul”

"“They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.” I'm happy every time I read that line.

Only if you let him be. That's kind of sick, actually, because it's like admitting we're not even going to try and see if another great writer can emerge. Tyrannical is what this is. MccArthy was a good writer, but not very wise. Science is not our saviour but our shackle. Man can call anything science, and without literature, all will naively believe it.

A simple correction in the biography of McCarthy. It was not the hills of Texas that he retreated to when he was young. It was the hills of Tennessee, and he attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville for a time. He grew up in Knoxville before he ever went west.

McCarthy was a silly man in the X-Files.

Excellent video

This is one of my favorite videos on CZcams.

I always thought The Judge was a reference to God. When the kid is in the jail cell, I remember the judge saying something about the kid not letting him full into his heart. I grew up in a rough ass Lutheran church in South Texas. The vibe always fit. I doesn't matter what God asks of you, be it acts, violence, or kindness, all is done thru God.