Hello everyone! Pagliacci here.
Today i will talk about a book i read long time ago, it's one of my favorites especialy for the good ambientation who Cormac McCarthy give to it. Well, the book is about a veteran of Vietnam who finds the remains of a failed drug deal and a suitcase containing two million dollars.
The drougs and the book.
In several parts the book talk about a thought one of my favorite parts is this one...
"I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics" this line is so powerful, he seems to understand the drug issue well. In the USA, it's a topic that's been discussed for far too many years, and yet they refuse to implement any effective measures to reduce drug use, while simultaneously allowing so many young people such easy access to drugs. One of my favorites bands talks about it very well in the song "Prision" they don't wanna actually fight the issue, mosly they one more people controled with that crap.
I think it's one of the best speeches because of that line and another one that appears at the beginning of the monologue: "One of the things you learn when you get old is that the world doesn't age with you." But I'm going to analyze the other one I mentioned. By considering Satan as the answer to certain troubling periods, it's as if Catholicism were to go on sabbatical and Satanism were to take its place: it seeks the meaning of life, of human endeavor, in hell, not in paradise.
And as i said, it's damn terrible how that sounds. Sheriff Bell, perhaps unintentionally, is assigning a demonic status to the human dimension, instead of a divine one. Which, in essence, can approach a perfect moral pessimism, which in turn also approaches commonplace nihilism. But of course: the title of the novel is No Country for Old Men; and Bell is an exhausted, old man. Some people are stuck in the past; many things change every day, including the views many people have about religion, which are much more open today than in other centuries. What you tink about this? Comment, i wanna see more of your thoughts
