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This puts a lot of things into perspective. So now I understand he was in a deeply minimalist style late in his career, when he wrote The Road for instance, and in the grip of nihilistic Materialism when he wrote Child of God. That helps...
In fact maybe the whole devastated world is an outer reflection of his own devastated inner world? "As within so without." It means we project the contents of our inner life out onto the world around us. As a cliched example, somone who's deeply...
I just had a thought—all the devastated and ruined houses. A house makes you think of a family. But these houses are empty broken shells, most with nobody living in them. Maybe they're all reflections of his own ruined family?
I'm probably more than halfway through The Road now. Not sure what to think about it. It's become incredibly boring. There's no plot progression, because there's no plot. It follows the "this hapopened, and then this happened, and then this...
Here's a nice treat—Not only did McCarthy hang out with physicists and scientists and was smart enough to talk shop with them at pretty near their level, but he was deeply interested in language and the unconscious mind as well, and wrote this...
This is a thread that connects up a lot of the most powerful artists and writers of history, as well as some of the most powerful themes in movies and music etc—an unflinching look at evil and violence. You encounter it in a lot of rap music,...
YouTube just randomly showed me this video:
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I think it actually helps quite a bit toward understanding the dark philosophy of McCarthy. Logic and reason and Liberal ethics are a flimsy veneer compared to the depths of cruelty and...
Oh I remember now—what kicked off my interest in McCarthy was that YouTube randomly recommended this video:
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Then it showed me the infamous Oprah interview. Then I started seeking out better ones (better than the Oprah interview) and ran...
The ideas discussed here remind me of a couple of things—
There's an ancient idea expressed as "Moving the mind into the heart" that I've seen in relation to Buddhism, Yoga and contemplative Christianity.
And the thing I keep saying:
Practice...
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An older talk, from two years ago. McGilchrist shot his part on a potato, but this gets into some really good stuff about the differences between intelligence and wisdom. He gets more into the spiritual and the intuitive than I've seen...
Here we go:
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Seeing this I understand why it's rats—small scurrying things. Another form of plague, but a very common domestic one that people everywhere are familair with. They get in your house or a building and they can hide and...
Another spin-off thought that just hit me related to what I just said—
The Lord of the Flies is a nickname for an ancient devil called Ba'al (short for Beelzebub). A better translation would be the Lord of the Fliers, meaning flying things, or...
I know, this seems somewhat off topic for this thread, but all these ideas are closely related. I put this blog thread into the Poetic/Narrative series because I've come to realize the poetic in a sense means the unconscious or the right-brain...
"In my analysis of Loki I identified him as a tendency in the Viking character toward pride arrogance and deceit."
Actually that's a little off—it sounds more like Satan. Loki would be the god of treachery and betrayal. This little statemtn,...
https://youtube.com/shorts/fAMU8AWgVwo?si=7hK088ubBiWGhDzP
Well shit, I hoped it would work this time. Nope, still no idea how to post a Youtube Short here, if it's even possible. Still though, a very interesting snippet from one of his talks,...
When I was studying and practicing lucid dreaming there was a method for achieving lucidity called All Day Awareness. Actually there are several variations on it, that all involve becoming aware of your surroundings. In other words it's a...
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Rather than go back and re-watch the video I fell asleep to, I watched this one last night. He approaches things differently in certain ways here. A few high points I still remember:
Attention is far more powerful and foundational than...
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Hmm. Inner core beliefs to give characters reasons for doing things. Nice concept. It's like giving them an inner life or inner world, and if somebody lacks that they're like empty, soulless characters, only reacting to events that...
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