Chagor's Deterministic Streak

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Chagor has this deterministic sometimes almost moralistic kind of streak where he's like you make choices and it leads you to this point. With this guy this tesico guy is he saying that you're just letting life happen to you? Maybe that's what the thing that drove him in this caseYeah right i feel like i feel like we've talked about this before maybe maybe like this idea of somebody trying to jog people out of lettinglife happen to them by doing something violent.

David and Tamler dive into the Coen brothers’ bleak and beautiful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel "No Country for Old Men." What’s the underlying philosophy that animates Anton Chigurh? Does he have a code of any kind, or is he just a ghostly symbol of human brutality and a pitiless indifferent universe? Does he represent a new kind of evil or is Sheriff Bell just getting old? What elements, if any, in the film are more dream than reality?

And speaking of moral decline, a new Nature study claims that we have the illusory belief that people are getting worse - but can they really establish that it’s an illusion?

Mastroianni, A. M., & Gilbert, D. T. (2023). The illusion of moral decline. Nature, 1-8.

Mastroianni blog post about the illusion of moral decline

No Country for Old Men (movie) [wikipedia.org]