Redneck dystopia

Finally, someone who despises No Country for Old Men as much as I do, even if he is a Marxist. The book, that is. I haven’t seen the movie, which this review disparages, sideswiping the book at the same time. He even has a followup, since he drew so much flak for the first one. (If I had a regular reading audience of any size, I might have been shelled more myself. But I don’t, so I wasn’t, especially.) Therein, also, he excoriates McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. As it should be. Faux literary pulp, both of them, with violence the only reason for being.

UPDATE: The battle goes on as Scott waits to see if his fav author’s movie wins an Oscar. Which goes to prove (see comments) that Scott is not a true redneck, because a true redneck would not care about the Oscars to being with. Which also proves that rednecks are smarter than a lot of intellectuals think, since not watching the Oscars is the norm now and, indeed, the wave of the future, a rejection of Hollyweird’s BS of which I heartily approve. Meanwhile, the flicker won four, which I do not find a surprise. McCarthy’s meaningless drivel is right up the industry’s nihilistic alley. 

0 responses to “Redneck dystopia

  1. So, just to be sure, does this mean that you don’t like McCarthy’s work?

  2. I liked the trilogy that began with Pretty Horses. Well, the first two. The last one, not so much.

  3. What an intellectual blowhard that guy is. “As Aristotle teaches us…” Us redneck amateurs are never gonna take to that, anyway.

  4. Glad to have you back, Scott, even if it is to defend your fav author. Though for all your love of tractors, poker and bar-b-q, I have trouble envisioning you as a real redneck.