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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Is Death a Ritual?

"This is a ceremony of a certain magnitude, perhaps more commonly called a ritual," he writes. "Rituals which fail in this requirement are but mock rituals." The next part will say men's complaints about life actually conceal the fact that they just want to overpower other people - it's all about power.

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