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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Death Is the End of Possibility, Right?

The judge doesn't characterize it this way, because if you think about it in the descriptions of the violence that they perpetrate. And so there's kind of a betrayal of this notion that judges speaking out of two sides of his mouth. I mean, they do get messed up pretty badly by Apaches and by general Elias's men. There's something specious about this characterization that doesn't sit with me.

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