Episode 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In part one of our two-part episode on Cormac McCarthy’s blood-soaked phantasmagorical 1985 masterpiece Blood Meridian, David and Tamler talk about the historical sources of the novel, the cosmic questions the book poses, the capriciousness of the near-constant violence, and the ethical neutrality of McCarthy’s prose. We also get into the religious imagery, the gnostic elements, and the judge – what to make of the judge?

Plus a new meta-analysis refutes the common wisdom that “opposites attract.” But did we ever really believe that anyway?

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https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evidence-opposites-dont.html

Evidence of correlations between human partners based on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of 22 traits and UK Biobank analysis of 133 traits | Nature Human Behaviour

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:05.9	having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.3	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad, some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.1	So I guess it's just you and me against the entire radical left.
0:22.9	Sisyphus had it easy.
0:53.6	They think he's lost, and with no more brains than you have.
0:57.2	Way to our attention!
0:59.2	Come on, man!
1:01.0	Anybody can have a brain?
1:05.9	You're a very bad man.
1:09.9	I'm a very good man.
1:12.3	Just a very bad wizard.
1:15.2	Welcome to very bad wizards.
1:16.7	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:19.4	Dave, a new study shows that contrary to conventional wisdom,
1:23.6	opposites do not in fact attract.
1:26.8	Okay, maybe.
1:27.6	But then how have you and I been able to do this podcast for over 11 years?
1:32.4	Answer me that.
1:34.0	And maintain that attraction.
1:35.6	Exactly.
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