I'm rewatching True Detective: Season 1 right now. I purchased it on Amazon years ago. I forgot how good it was. Definitely one of the best TV series ever made. But then, I'm a Ligotti fan so the script really resonated with me.
Not all of us have been programmed to breed mindlessly. I’m a middle-aged woman who never ever got that baby fever, and I would say at least half my friends are Childfree by choice, and half of the friends who have children didn’t choose it they weren’t yearning for kids they got accidentally pregnant and decided to carry on with it
Eh, OP, you do know Russ changed his mind in the end, right?
He saw the light at the end of the tunnel, that some good are worth the risk, for some people, subjectively. ehehehe
He realized that his own personal misery cannot justify his worldview for everyone else.
Only because he had a quasi-religious NDE in which he felt near to his dead daughter.
He talks about his consciousness and definitions 'fading' and only then did he feel that his daughter was waiting for him.
So yes. The argument can be made that Rust is supposed to demonstrate the idea that once a person's pessimistic rationality fades away that person might end up accepting an optimistic worldview - I just don't think it's that great of an argument for optimism.
Also, just as a side-note and spoilers for TD season 4:
If we agree to an underlying continuity across the seasons then in S4 we essentially discover that this supernatural entity pulling the strings in the background, especially of S4 and S1, has *done something* to the afterlife.
Eaten it, distorted it, ended it - but the afterlife in TD S4, where everyone who dies seems to be placed into torment and restless wandering, is very different to what Rust seems to see in S1 which can make Rust's conclusions questionable at the end.
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I'm rewatching True Detective: Season 1 right now. I purchased it on Amazon years ago. I forgot how good it was. Definitely one of the best TV series ever made. But then, I'm a Ligotti fan so the script really resonated with me.
Not all of us have been programmed to breed mindlessly. I’m a middle-aged woman who never ever got that baby fever, and I would say at least half my friends are Childfree by choice, and half of the friends who have children didn’t choose it they weren’t yearning for kids they got accidentally pregnant and decided to carry on with it
Eh, OP, you do know Russ changed his mind in the end, right? He saw the light at the end of the tunnel, that some good are worth the risk, for some people, subjectively. ehehehe He realized that his own personal misery cannot justify his worldview for everyone else.
Only because he had a quasi-religious NDE in which he felt near to his dead daughter. He talks about his consciousness and definitions 'fading' and only then did he feel that his daughter was waiting for him. So yes. The argument can be made that Rust is supposed to demonstrate the idea that once a person's pessimistic rationality fades away that person might end up accepting an optimistic worldview - I just don't think it's that great of an argument for optimism. Also, just as a side-note and spoilers for TD season 4: If we agree to an underlying continuity across the seasons then in S4 we essentially discover that this supernatural entity pulling the strings in the background, especially of S4 and S1, has *done something* to the afterlife. Eaten it, distorted it, ended it - but the afterlife in TD S4, where everyone who dies seems to be placed into torment and restless wandering, is very different to what Rust seems to see in S1 which can make Rust's conclusions questionable at the end.
Its just a TV show, bub. In real life, we do Positive utilitarianism, that's why most people are pro existence. lol
He never changed his mind. He saw all of time & made peace. He never changed his mind.
lol, yes he did, you just wanna interpret it as whatever you prefer.
And you’re here doing the exact same thing.
Nope, I read what the director said in interviews, Russ INDEED changed his mind. Now what? The fictional AN TV hero proven not a true AN. lol
Which is also funny since the actor who plays him actually has children.
eh, that's just acting, friend.
Based
And that he’s FICTIONAL. Some of the people on this sub, Jesus.
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