Carolina QuotesIf the world has a mind then it's all worse than we thought.
Cormac McCarthy Carolinian
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- Stella Maris (2022)
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- 2022
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“If the world has a mind then it's all worse than we thought.” Cormac McCarthy. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-A904CC4299. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/a904cc4299
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The world has no name, he said. The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them so that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. That they cannot find for us the way again.
He said that both views were one view and that while men may meet with death in strange and obscure places which they might well have avoided it was more correct to say that no matter how hidden or crooked the path to their destruction yet they would seek it out. He smiled. He spoke as one who seemed to understand that death was the condition of existence and life but an emanation thereof.
When Wittgenstein convinced Russell that all math is a tautology, Russell gave up on math.