/lit/ - Literature

>>8978230

>McCarthy weighs a heavy criticism on humanity as well; the book's cyclic depictions of nature and violence are meant to show the incessant union between man and violence, nature and decay. He's saying that man is on a course of never-ending war, bickering, deceiving, and deadly ambition

It's not a criticism of humanity so much as a criticism of Last Men - those who want to abolish Evil, and everything it entails. In short, 50% of what makes us Human. McCarthy says to embrace that 50%.

The Judge is a mirror that McCarthy holds up to the Last Men - showing them that they, these half-good half-men, are just as monstrous as the half-evil half-man.

>>8945846

>Ethics are no longer debated upon in any meaningful matter

Sadly right.

Last Men rule the world now, it's been that way since WW2.

Human rights, equality, Western liberal democracy, the Golden Rule, and so on. Pathetic.

>>8828471

See, this is the problem.

A lot of people whitewash Nietzsche's work. Much of his work is diametrically and irreconcilably opposed to modern, Western, Liberal Democratic sensibilities.

>Lives in the era of Last Men
>Wonders why we don't get Great Men

Really transvaluates the ol' neurons.

>>8571972

>>8571185

Correction: The 20th century is the first in which our moral, political and scientific thought is not underpinned by anything - save perhaps a retarded oversimplification of the already shitty Golden Rule, or Nietzsche's 'Last Man' made real.

Welcome to the reality of post-war modern education: when everyone is 'educated', no one is.

No one nowadays, beyond a few shut-ins, is a conscious nihilist.

Modern day nihilists are only COINCIDENTAL nihilists. They do not decide to become nihilists, nor are they necessarily aware that they are. Most normies don't even know what the fucking term means: confusing 'nihilism' and 'narcissism' all the time for example (whilst also being generally unaware of the latter term's meaning too).

What you call 'nihilists' are, in reality, bourgeois bohemians who take the philosophy of Aurelius to its most autistic ends. "Eat, drink and be merry" with a pinch of Matthew 6:34. Like dogs, and Laozi, people live evermore for the present now - which is why any grand designs, such as those that brought about (and maintained) Rome's thousand-year empire, are destined to fail in the hands of these Last Men.

>>8533610

I recently heard 'I'm Free' by The Soup Dragons, and a particular lyric made me realize (more than anything else) that we are in the age of the last man:

>"I'm free to do what I want any old time"