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From what I’ve seen, the same director of The Road will direct the BM film adaptation. He did a pretty decent job of bringing McCarthy’s cryptic and highly metaphorical words to life.

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The dismissal of free will is the total denial of the value of pain

What about the futility of the judge's actions if he is the demiurge? Someone mentioned this in another comment and went on to describe the references to gnostic mythology as being like when a Christian writer alludes to Greek or Roman mythology, rather than a basis for the central theme of the novel and the judge's character. Personally I feel like the video does a disservice to his character by trying to contain him within a system even if he is at the top as some kind of deity, it is far more unnerving (and effective writing) to think that the characters of the novel can never know anything about him other than what he wants them to know. This perspective - leaving much of his character in the dark - makes him a far more supernatural figure and changed my reading of him greatly. when I read, I quickly accepted in the dream sequence that somehow, someway, the judge was allowing the Kid to have his dream and possibly understand the judge's purpose. The same commenter described him as the judge of what is 'real or pretence', or maybe rather what is genuine, hence the coins being made in the dream. This explains the fascination with war, it is everywhere, it is seemingly intrinsic to all humans, it is real. However the expressly pitiful state of the forger, the exile from man's fire, the enshadowing of the judge... It seems to me like a punishment, not to mention the separation of those being punished and seemingly the rest of humanity. (I do know that fire is extremely symbolic throughout the novel but I need to read into what it means before I make a judge(pun unintended)ment). The punishment that the Kid witnesses certainly is in line with ideas of the judge as Satan or the setting being Hell, but it doesn't quite fit: Why would all the kids get diddled? What did they do to deserve that? Overall I think McCarthy is an absolute genius because the judge is far scarier for not knowing why he does things, why he punishes people, not knowing in the sense that you know 80% of his reasoning but then he does something, seemingly contradicting himself. As far as I know there is no surefire way of determining why the judge what he does, the only thing we leave knowing as readers is that War is God. The judge worships Chaos. R.I.P Cormac McCarthy

8:22 That’s actually from Samuel Chamberlain’s My Confession.

Meh, in literature many things can be true, especially when discussing McCarthy

I'm 4 minutes on and gets just telling me howr dumb other people are

I don't know where you got your sources from, but gnosticism wasn't a unified religion. It is an umbrella term to describe unorthodox practices of Christianity in its early days. There was no cohesive message between gnostics

The judge is clearly not the demiurge, but rather lucifer, or at least a luciferian. Gnostic/ luciferian logic is as follows: If the god of the bible is evil, then all his commands and morals are evil too. So if god says do not steal, rape, murder, etc. then to do so is to defy this evil god and thus is 'good

I know the scriptures say judge not lest ye be judged, but this Judge Holden fella seems like a real jerk!

The Vile Eye is an idiot

I'll tell you what he's not....allowed within 100 miles of any elementary school on the planet. Amazing video too by the way

he set down the lid and alluded to a time incoherent while the vision scattered ill-fitting introductory music into smoke which reminded no one else present of anything so much as a sea shanty from some Dutch harbor in the tune, like Alaska breaking it's own back seeking snow or ice for warmth or even a plow to clean the road now and the indigenous digging ditches and resenting igloos at the tanned hats and grins of wrangling auto tuned men.

Fantastic video. Though I have to ask, what was the image you used for the thumbnail? It's stunning.

Al Gore is a good man Dammit

I think the best interpretation of the Judge, other than in Blood Meridian itself, is within the text of Full Metal Alchemist. The alchemy of that series was based on gnostic theology as well, making the great pale being of Truth, the same being of the Judge, the God of their respective universe.

i just finished reading blood meridian for the first time tonight and only now do i feel as though I'm coming out of the pitched fever dream within the tail end of a bad peyote trip. it feels like something changed in me, like the way no country for old men made me feel: that bloodlust and violence and all things selfish and destructive are not new and have in fact been around for eons. and maybe they always will be. not that it's news to me or anyone else, it's plain to see. many are lured into nihilism or some other absolutism when they come across works like these, that remind them of the darkest corners of their souls and that evil lies most comfortably within the hearts of normal men and women. but i'm also a sentimental idiot so i grabbed my cat, hugging him and holding him, choosing to repudiate that path. because I want to, or because i can. don't really know why i wrote any of that. but thanks for the video, it is very well researched and thought provoking. it seems everyone takes something different away from blood meridian, and yours is definitely one of the most interesting expositions i've seen on it. in many ways it's as esoteric as cormac mccarthy's own writing at times, so it feels like a very pointed place to put a lid on my thoughts regarding this book for a while. also sorry for basically writing my own book in your comment section. I'm at that stage of the acid trip where you're coming back down to consensus reality and gibbering away about your thoughts on all kinds of things, all of which you'll forget come morning.

Congratulations, this was really an amazing and interesting video essay. 👍 Your very personal as well as visual and lyrical presentation of this work is completely in line with Proust's philosophical and emotional train of thoughts in "À la recherche du temps perdu". Well done 👍.

The one line that really made me decide the Judge was supernatural was in the end when he tells the kid that he had left his companion Shelby to the Mexican troops to die after they drew the arrows to kill the man. The entire company had ridden on by then, none of the gang could have known that he did not carry out the order. The Kid never mentions it to anyone, and unless the Judge sees Shelby many years later somehow, which is not mentioned, he would have no idea this transpired and no reason to think The Kid didnt carry out the order unless he was omniscient.

Truth is, Jesus Christ is God . Believing and trusting in him is our only way to be saved from hell

Agreed

So, even if you get friend zoned, remember the good times? Amazing video btw.

Great video! I am now more interested in your thoughts regarding Kubrick's movie compared to the book? Do you think Kubrick cared more about style over substance?

Brilliant

Thank you for making this.

Kind of a bitch move you did there at the beginning can’t lie

The Judge is the devil incarnate. This is why he is so huge but wears tiny shoes, because of his cloven hooves.

I actually lost my sense of taste and smell during my years addicted to heroin, reading Proust makes both senses return.

Interesting copies you have, I prefer the Lydia Davis translation, but those are surely the coolest looking. *whoa, and illustrations???? Cool I have his collection, second hand, book 1 is mangled, book 2 is 95% intact, 34567 are 1000% perfect condition😂

DAMN, this was a banger video

This was beautiful. Thanks

I like the part where the judge grows flowers to give with a hug to children.

my head hurts

Yeah dude, the Judge is truly Effed up. I read that shit a couple of times and cant make much sense of it. All's I know is when a Cormack McCarthy book ends everybody is either dead or wishes they were! True to life and he is one of my favorite authors though. I appreciate the no bullshit aspect he brings.

good video but i hate your shitty british accent when you read

That was wonderful. I'll be picking up old copy and rereading this story. Edith Wharton is a phenomenal writer. One of the best

incredible essay, so happy I found this channel

Great video. There are many an analysis of The Judge ob YT but this one is by far the best. Cheers.

Dust the table, please

Good book for a mash up of genres. I preferred My Confession. It felt real.

Wow 🤩 incredible. You should do an audiobook on white Nights,love your voice, I will definitely listen to it.

Yeah i came to similar conclusions after finishing it this week. Ive read quite a few texts on black magick and demononlogy as well as gnosticim prior to reading blood meridian no country for old men and the road i guess through each of these books we see a greater manifestation of the same god ultimately consuming all life on the planet by the road its like the world is judge holdens fantasy manifest and id say anton chigur might be on the same kind thing as holden was. This relates what the old man says to the man when everyone is dead death is the only thing left to walk down the road.

He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

I think if war is god, & man is born for it; then the judge is the intermediary. The conduit.

Even "Fated Ones" can fall to depths and depravity No matter how blessed or ceremonial their entrance to the story.

I’m not particularly fond of the Gnostic interpretation of McCarthy. In that, I agree with McCarthy scholars and artists like Peter Josyph, who argued that seeing all things in terms of trapped divine sparks, metaphysical forces and archontic heimarmene truly closes one’s eyes to the very real, physical realities of suffering, violence, and death.

Some years ago, back at a time when I read and reread “Blood Meridian”, I sometimes came home, half expecting to find the Judge sitting there in my kitchen or living room, waiting for me… McCarthy and this book in particular really changed a lot about how I look at the world and my fellow human beings. Regarding the judge: In a recent study, “Cormac McCarthy: An American Apocalypse”, the author argued that the Judge can be evocative of and essentially fulfill the roles of so many literary and mythological figures and eternal forces (Satan, Dionysus, the Renaissance man, Melville’s Whale, the Enlightenment, war, destiny) is because he functions very much like a principle of desire and violence and signification itself that is at the heart of all of these figures and entities. It sounds weird, but it’s pretty much the most lucid and encompassing analysis of the Judge that I know.

Glanton is far more intetesting than the judge. I havent seen much discussion about him.

What does it say about me as a human that I am both scared and excited to see a visual adaptation of this horror?

When he sacrifices that mare...its rough stuff