I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself - we are creatures that should not exist by natural law... We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, that accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody... I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction - one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.
~Detective Rust Cohle
All that is required for the advancement of ideas is the death of the previous generation of thinkers. Cull on bitches, cull on.
First of all, "everybody's nobody"???... No, that's my job !!!!! And secondly, what if I had dare to suggest here to stop reproducing and walk hand in hand into extinction? I am pretty sure I would've gotten some retaliation (and I am being a bit conservative). Why is it then kind of glamorous for "Detective Rust Cohle" to say such thing? Beats me... I know True Detective is an awesome TV short series but c'mon people, some are buying this as deep philosophy of sorts... It is not