Mc Carthy's Blood Meridian

Comc. Mc carthy's novel is discuss on survival forums, and not for the reason we might initially think. Preppers don't read the road to glean practical prepping advice, but they read it in regard to mental fortitude. And ultimately with following this nameless father and this nameless son through a burned out waste land - that which the father can teach his son. i see the discourse that goes on between the father and son as being one of how to best prepare the child to be the father of man. The romantic poets were endlessly obsessed with returning to childhood, or trying to reclaim that lost innocence. Here in the road, we see that constant preoccupation too