The Importance of Respect in Fargor

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Wendell is not just an indiscriminate killer you know he's not it's hard to know what said what will set him off and what won't. You almost get the feeling that he respected herYeah yeah in a way that he didn't respect the tuxico Yeah right so luelle inputs his wife on a bus i guess to adessa or to his to her mothers um sheriff gets to the trailer like you said they're always one step behind Wendell when it hits him When Tommy Lee points out that the bottle of milk is still sweating he's like oh we just missed him like he has the aggravating so it's aggravating He keeps saying all right we're gonna

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]