The Penchant for Sayings in Texas

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The woman who plays the life is in Boardwalk Empire and also a trainsbody. I love when she says where'd you get the pistol he says at the getting place. She's very good in this. Yeah it's a little whinier than she needs to be at the end. So we should say that you posted a video on Twitter a while ago in the context of our interpreting art episode and this guy argued that Lulellum was actually Shagor in the fight club situation. One of his big pieces of evidence is some of the incongruities in the otherwise fairly tight story like why is he going back later? He might be in over his head but like

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]