The Importance of Gratefulness

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There is a little bit of a theme of of greed being the downfall of humans who behind all of this like and there's just different levels of it. The kids at the end are mostly like not greedy but then all of a sudden once they have that it's like it's like no they're not worth it. Woody Harrelson smart enough to figure out like okay like he probably would have leaned on a pole if he was going to throw at it like so I think he kind of found it, we don't know if he accepted the deal that Carson Wells is offering him.

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]