Any Rust Cohle fans here ?

[Bentley Goldman]

"To realize that all your life—you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memory, all your pain—it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream. A dream that you had inside a locked room. A dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams there's a monster at the end of it¨.

Rust Cohle got me into a lot of existential philosophy as well. I read the Conspiracy Against The Human race and I am reading some Jean-Paul Sartre as well.

The thing I like about Rust is he knows that consciousness is a mistake, he knows there is no point in existence and he knows that life is not something to be desired because it is pure hell.

 

[311]

Very interesting character. I cut alot of clips of his on VLC.

 

[wiroho]

He changed his mind in the last episode

 

[Pulpit2018]

He changed his mind in the last episode

I am not sure.
Remember when he was in the bed in the hospital he said to Marty: We did not get them all.
In which Marty responds: Its not that kind of a world.

So clearly he is still a pessimist.Also the passage about the darkness in the sky confirms it.
The objectively optimistic comment that "light is gaining ground" means he believes they won a small fight.

Its a misconception to think Rust was a nihilist.He never was.Beneath the downbeaten persona was a driven man dedicated to finding the bad criminals.He wanted to redeem himself for the death of his daughter.He had deep down internal faith that his actions were meaningful,even if he always claimed the world was screwed up.

 

[311]

I am not sure.
Remember when he was in the bed in the hospital he said to Marty: We did not get them all.
In which Marty responds: Its not that kind of a world.

So clearly he is still a pessimist.Also the passage about the darkness in the sky confirms it.
The objectively optimistic comment that "light is gaining ground" means he believes they won a small fight.

Its a misconception to think Rust was a nihilist.He never was.Beneath the downbeaten persona was a driven man dedicated to finding the bad criminals.He wanted to redeem himself for the death of his daughter.He had deep down internal faith that his actions were meaningful,even if he always claimed the world was screwed up.

True detectives is my favorite show of all time. I've rewatched the series like 5 times. There is nothing like it.

 

[Bentley Goldman]

True detectives is my favorite show of all time. I've rewatched the series like 5 times. There is nothing like it.

Yea me too, what´s your favorite quote ?

 

[311]

Yea me too, what´s your favorite quote ?

"This place is like somebody's memory of a town, and the memory is fading."

When they're in that abandoned strip mall

 

[Bentley Goldman]

"This place is like somebody's memory of a town, and the memory is fading."

When they're in that abandoned strip mall

Yea it seems like everything Rust says hits home. I love Rust Cohle

 

[Bentley Goldman]

I am not sure.
Remember when he was in the bed in the hospital he said to Marty: We did not get them all.
In which Marty responds: Its not that kind of a world.

So clearly he is still a pessimist.Also the passage about the darkness in the sky confirms it.
The objectively optimistic comment that "light is gaining ground" means he believes they won a small fight.

Its a misconception to think Rust was a nihilist.He never was.Beneath the downbeaten persona was a driven man dedicated to finding the bad criminals.He wanted to redeem himself for the death of his daughter.He had deep down internal faith that his actions were meaningful,even if he always claimed the world was screwed up.

So do you think Rust was an existentialist?

 

[locusdelicti]

So do you think Rust was an existentialist?

Absolutely, as is evidenced by his pursuit of the authentic reality, devoid of coloration by what he calls our "programming." But also a Pessimist, as he states himself. His ideology is pretty well summed up in this quote:

"We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody."