The Importance of Consent

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The professor said, I do it to blow off steam. Dude, I forgot about this. He was also videotaping himself doing it. Because that's one of the things was like, okay, he got caught because there was like a trail cam that somebody checked. It turns out he was also like, you know, self being the thing, like, for later,. You know, some AI dog porn. Yeah. Use, use like a dolly to, youknow, he was also, it wasn't also videotaping him doing it. The saddest part to me was like, who among us? Has it wanted to blow off? That's a terrible excuse. Like,

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]