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If he were a character in a play or novel you guys would be talking

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If he were a character in a play or novel you guys would be talking about him here a lot.

Not saying that his life philosophy is profound, new, or revolutionary, but his lines are certainly quite interesting. There are some metaphors and modern prose poetry on them that are of great quality, and he has some agglutination of diverse characteristics (severe and Spartan lifestyle/drunkenness drug abuse; disdain for humanity and life/desire to protect and help victims; moments of calm reflection and silence/wild bursts of violence and energy) that makes him quite complex.
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>>8293840
Ok.
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One must distance oneself from what attracts fools
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>>8293840
What I hated about true detective was how it seems miles deep to the illiterate but it's actually baby's first nihilism lol
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>>8293840
His whole shtick is basically ripped off from a book though
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>>8293875
>Not saying that his life philosophy is profound, new, or revolutionary

Just remember what I said:

>Not saying that his life philosophy is profound, new, or revolutionary
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At least explain who he is for people who don't watch American tv. Sage
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I liked it because it seemed like an interesting twist on the standard "mystery" atmosphere. Rust's edgy pontificating was more effective as an ambiance builder than as meaningful characterization.
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>>8293958
It is literally ripped from that book.

>>8293875
pretty much this
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His "nihilistic" attitude was all posturing, or at least mostly so. In effect, a screen against a far more unsettling sense of cosmic dread that threatened his real commitments to justice or, at least, dessert for the perpetrators of violence he dogged.

Consider the evangelist's sermon again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhsRaMDkPiM

>You are a stranger to yourself, and yet he knows you.
>Yours sorrows pin you to this place. They divide you from what your heart knows.

And Marty's acute observation in that same scene:

>When you get to talkin' like this, you sound panicked.

Cohle's whole arc is motivated by his refusal to know himself. His philosophizing is anti-philosophy, as it is founded on a failure to heed the fundamental imperative of wisdom.
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>>8293958

Influences in other media[edit]
In 2014, the HBO television series True Detective attracted attention from some of Ligotti's fans because of the striking resemblance between the pessimistic, antinatalist philosophy espoused in the first few episodes by the character of Rust Cohle (played by Matthew McConaughey) and Ligotti's own philosophical pessimism and antinatalism, especially as expressed in The Conspiracy Against the Human Race. Prior to accusations that dialogue from Cohle's character in True Detective were lifted from The Conspiracy Against the Human Race,[13][14] the series' writer, Nic Pizzolatto, confirmed in The Wall Street Journal[15][16][17] that Ligotti, along with several other writers and texts in the weird supernatural horror genre, had indeed influenced him. Pizzolatto said he found The Conspiracy Against the Human Race to be "incredibly powerful writing".[17] On the topic of hard-boiled detectives, he asked: "What could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or [Emil] Cioran?"[17]
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