Human consciousness was a tragic misstep in evolution

>should not exist by natural law

That's dumb. Everything that exists is natural law. There's no other type of laws governing the universe.

this character was terrible and I have no idea why this trash show is praised so much.

Every time I walk into my office.

>human conciousness bad
>nature full of wasps that inject living victims full of parasites good

Is there anything worse than faggot fedora tipping atheists? I say this as an atheist.

I think in that context it means like 'biological law', implying that humans have begun some new stage of reality

Remember when AJ Soprano said the same shit? That was a good show because it accurately portrayed existentialism as the viewpoint of a dumb teenager

Death does ultimately show the absurdity of life

And all life is is a choice between boredom or suffering.

insects lack self awareness though, there is no suffering or evil in their actions, just nature following its programming

The difference is AJ is a stupid lazy kid and sees existentialism as an excuse to opt out of homework and cleaning his room. Rust has suffered the worst loss a human being can possibly experience, so his mind tends to wander into dark places but he’s a hypocrite anyway since he still gives a damn about his work.

>there is no suffering
there might be suffering, idk how people can claim to know things like this. Suffering as in just feeling physical pain seems to be one of the things that basically all animals should be able to experience

u 1st

rust wasn't a philosopher, he was a sad clown using existential philosophy as a cathartic crutch. - something to keep himself at a distance from other people. This is why normie characters balked at his pathetic comments during the show.

both he and marty were clowns who played as something they weren't. - marty wished to be the man society expected him to be, and rust needed to protect himself from past trauma and loss. this is where the inner character conflicts came from - it's resolved through a shared experiences of humiliation as the show moves forward.

as soon has rust found a source of companionship and emotional interdependence in marty, his whole shtick broke down.

>as soon has rust found a source of companionship and emotional interdependence in marty, his whole shtick broke down.
The writing is somewhat ambiguous about whether it was primarily this or whatever he saw in the sky in Carcosa that changed his perspective

I found a giant nest once in broad daylight while on a giant drug assisted vision quest at the edge of a utopian cyber-punk enclave.

You know, a giant nest, like the one at the end of season one where the Yellow King gets found and dies.

But you can't acknowledge tbis post because the threads that talk about movie out of your house and living up to social standards are bait.

that's a fine read, BUT i view the cosmic horror aspect of the show to be an allegory for the absurdity/futility of crime prevention. a big concept of the show is that landscapes absorb trauma and it ends up reproducing itself over and over again.

law enforcement (at least america's romantic idea of it) is always fighting a losing battle, it doesn't really save anyone, and even the criminals are victims. the killers in the show were traumatized by a vast pedophile conspiracy which could not be addressed through legal means. Even the cops were largely complicit in this dark system.

rust occasionally peeks into a cosmic perspective. he see's the ultimate futility in his position. - it almost becomes meta-fictional where he lampshades the cliche's of the police procedural format - 'a monster in a maze' and a serial return to trauma.

the metaphor of stars against the black void of space is good for closing. what is the point of preventing crime if it is an inescapable part of the human experience? the stars just suck it up and keep burning.

for me accepting his trauma and confiding in marty goes hand in hand with actually accepting cosmic absurdity. they no longer wear masks to hide the truth, rust no longer denies his person-hood to lessen the pain.

I think you're probably right, good write up m8.

One thing that isn't really addressed as much is the 'we're puppets' subject he talks about a lot. Like that great monologue about a dream you had in a locked room. Whether the existence of anythign good at all justifies having to live in a world with evil or not, that free will topic, and the idea that our concept of personhood is a meme, they aren't really resolved.

You reveal your own ignorance

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