Shagura: A Pragmatist's Journey

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Shagura gets t-bone by a station wagon and he's not even mad like he never gets mad. He views himself as maybe a mechanistic force yeah of a cold bleak of a different universeYeah she griscapes and gets somebody runs a red light and or he's not paying attention because he's looking at the kids and driving their bikes behind him. She says I ain't going to call it the coin didn't have no say the coin don't have nosay it's just you.

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]