Why Rust Cohle Is Still My Hero 10 Years Later

This world is a fvcking loop

Have you read “the conspiracy against the human race”?

Shane whigham crushed it! He was so good! Great video!

Life should be lived for what it is and to overcome our present limitations, not for external rewards and metaphysical redemptions. We've been culturally indoctrinated to depend on God's validations so much that once we realize the truth, we become powerless to be anything without a higher authority than our own.

would love your mind and imagery on why/what happened within that caused you to step away from the faith

Does anybody know what's name of the audio in the first four seconds?

Stop saying odd sh*t

Good Video

Same here. Because he is real, true detective

I loved True Detective first season was perfect. There are people in this world that have an epigenetic pulse that are for the good for humanity. That is Rust. Your analysis is correct. People exist like Rust just remain unseen, and they prefer life that way. Amen.

This show hits me when I had just finished reading Watts and all that stuff about living in the present. Especially the dialogue in the car, that scared me because from the beginning I felt like someone watching the story from a window and not necessarily agreing to my part of it. Anyway, I was 17 but I never left the window and it's hard to be aware of that.

You haven’t “lost” anything. You gained seeing the world without superstitious bs.

Does the author know you are direct quoting him and passing it off as your own thoughts?

This role and him in Interstellar are so incredible man.

Sorry, your interpretation is extremly self-defeatist

and it seems like you wen't into this analysis of the show to feel better about your own (likely grim) outlook on existence.


If life is meaningless, than is it actually (already) strong to not become evil and bitter or fade away into apathy ? No, I don't think so, that's just rationalizing weakness.
Afterall, the former idea can only be true if the expected (not strong nor weak) state would be to do degenerate. That this isn't true is severly obvious to anyone who isn't utterly depressed and or has read books from people like Camus, Nietzsche, Viktor Frankl, etc.


People like Nietzsche, Frankl and Camus, hell, even people like David Goggins, didn't and don't fall into apathy and depression in the face of the absurb, so why does Rust, if he is such a strong and conscientious charackter? Why can't he live "without hope" ? Simple, because you need a depressed character for a show like this. People can't relate to someone so strong, self assured and aware that he can enjoy and find glory in a life without meaning, at least not as much. That's why he's all like "oh poor me, I drink to forget, I act only out of instinct otherwise I would just lay down and die 😢"

It feels like he, at least parly, is there to affirm the viewer in, and justify, their own apathy.
(This is exactly what Rick&Morty had to do to keep up with the Zeitgeist: acknowledge Rick is wrong in thinking (and obviously acting) the way he does and is self sabotaging by doing so)

Instead True Detective should have communicated that purpose isn't found but activly created and fought for. At the smallest level, it's even just the decision to act alone.
Meanwhile, at the end of the series, Rust by pure chance finds purpose through another random hallucination/dream about his daughter.

Action and change can heal depression, pondering some edgelord thought experiment while drinking a whole six pack and smoking cigarettes won't.

Nobody truly loses "Faith". If you lose your religion, something else will take it's place. Even if it is a belief in nothing, and suffer in depression it is still a sort of faith. I myself, relate to a lot of what he says. He is basically stating the world is a never ending loop that we are all trapped in, and we will never change it.

All we can do is accept it or die. I myself relate my faith more in line with the Samurais Code. I refuse to lie, I will be try to always live honorably. I mostly wish to die, like a Spartan screaming difiance, not curled up in a blanket, sobbing.

this video is so bad. And the sound is even worse

Thanks for putting this together. I remain obsessed with a fictional character. And his creators, if I’m honest. 🖤

Communism will win.

Very good analysis and insight my friend.

Russ came out after my comment 3 hours ago. But I get its

There's not

Dont have any real argument on your video other than, someday you ought to learn, there is no such thing as "selflessness". It is literally impossible to take an action without self interest being involved.

"if the only thing keeping a man decent is the expectation of divine reward, then that person is a piece of shit"

This quote says everything you need to know about why Cole is so devine as an individual person... without believe in the devine himself

He let marty off the hook...many times

Has it been since 10 years?! I remember I was up late, looking for something to watch & came across True Detective. I watched it at 1am completely blind, not even so much as hearing a murmur online or watching a trailer. I must say it was thought provoking, shocking, terrifying, & sad all at once. I was kind of let down when the 2nd season came out & realized they changed the actors/characters. I got so attached to Rust & Marty. The wild part is Matthew is a devoted Christian that plays an atheist & Woody Harrelson was is an atheist that plays a Christian.

Creo que el personaje Rust mantiene en si lo que T.D.intenta mostrar, oscuridad, miseria y el sin sentido de las acciones con la fragilidad humana, sin dudas temporada 1 es única.

If you lost your faith, you never had it.

The final 3 minutes shows the only real way to live life. Realize and accept that you were born to be a character in this story we call life, and that this story sucks.

I watched this show when it was released. I was mesmerized by it--the visuals, the stylistic choices, the characters--but I didn't understand it on any sort of meaningful level. I've gone back and rewatched it a few times, each time, seeing more, understanding more. Now, having survived a series of great hardships in RL, I find myself dwelling on Rust's perspective, and agreeing with it more and more. Before I delve into another rewatch, I've been prepping for it--watching reaction videos and interpretative videos like this.

I appreciate your insight, and look forward to viewing other content by you, as this was truly a pleasure to watch. Thank you for sharing it.

Yeah, I feel like I totally see Cohle's approach...Saying certain things with such guarantee that no one would be able to shake that off without practically discarding the theory, but also being part of that same group who'd throw away the nihilistic reality in order to be naturally governed by their 'programming' per se, which they understand to be true for themselves, regardless of the greater reality that has been presented to them with such reason and thought....It's like reading a book about a character, accepting that they're the best written character ever and everyone should look up to them and try to be like them, and then closing off the book and then continue living as the same old person that you were, just with the greater knowledge of what could be different or better.

" The closer we get to truth, the further we go from meaning " very well said.

"The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears that might be true."
Murphy's Law

Christ calls you home

Nailed it. Great Analysis.

I have three questions for you:
- Is enlightenment real/possible?
- Why not check it out?
- Or does that exceed your "station in life" ?
Recognition of so-called "darkness" reflects conscious awareness - a path not bound by story

“My entire life I wanted to be near to God. The only nearness? Silence.”

Golly… Some gnarly introspection…

It’s disturbing that people have thought, or ever will think, organized religion is the answer to any of their problems. But I guess heroin addicts all behave the same, so it should be surprising.

Best serie ever.

As a realist myself, the world is easier when you are conformed. Be warned to have a hard time, lose friends, work, community.

Philosophy is a waste of time. I just watched this dude talk about it for 15 minutes and it’s just a bunch of bullshit.

Choose what you think is right and keep it moving. You guys are gonna hurt yourselves with all this thinking.

Mathew maconoughey brilliant anyway but this programme is something else 💪

I watched TD season one when it came out in 2014. I just lost my mother to a tragedy and ended up connecting with his character very deeply. Still the best single season of television ever written and acted, in my opinion.

Did you ignore his dead daughter as a motivator also? he hallucinated her after the case started. At the end it seemed to me he found his faith, I hope you found yours again. Great Video.

I feel like this is my personality when I hear you describe some of the things. I have a lot of these behaviors and act a lot like this. I am not sure if that is good or bad but it was interesting watching this content also well done video.

He's a yawn who attracts edgelord viewers who think it's so deep to think about how we're "specs of dust in oblivion". Yawn, such cliche teenage shyt. I thought this way when I was 18.