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Ep. 305: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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All Games Aspire to the Condition of War for Here, That Which Is Wagered Swips Up Game Player All

In games, the higher the stakes, the more worth they confer on participants. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence," he says. "The selection of one man over another is a preference absolute and irrevocable" He adds that when you're playing a game, if you think of the world in a deterministic way, everything that's happened is the result of the causal matrix in which you exist.

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