How can I enjoy my own life more? Anna, St Ives I get a severe #Fomo attack every time l log onto Facebook. I'm concerned that I'm not living life to the full. Only then, Simon, will you be able to see the real truth about yourself and access the locked room that lays the human condition bare. Rust says: Beauty is in the eyeball-sized mirror of the beholder. How can I feel better about myself? Simon, London It's hard to look in the mirror sometimes without feeling insecure about my appearance. Do everyone a favour, Stuart, and end it all now. We are carriers of the life disease, programmed to pass it on to our victims under the guise that we are procreating for the better, when all we're doing is sleepwalking into an endless stream of nappies and daycare and unmanageable populations. When will I know it's the right time? Stuart, Edinburgh In other words, just get on with it.Īll of my friends are settling down and having babies but I don't feel ready yet. But remember that disappointment is a construct of our shared belief in this fallacy that we call reality, when in fact all we are is individual islands of interconnected atoms whose treacherously evolving physiology had led to a psychological desire to believe our problems matter, when in fact they're inane, inconsequential specks of dust in a bottomless ocean of the world's apathy. Rust says: Helen, relationships are an endless war where no one wins or loses. I haven't been intimate with anyone in a while and I'm really nervous – I don't want them to be disappointed. I've been with my partner for three months and they want to take things to the next level. Yes, here he is, answering your real* modern-day problems. Wouldn't he? Lucky, then, that we dialled our exclusive Rustin Cohle hotline for a bit of What Would Rust Cohle Do logic. In fact, his wisdom is so astute he'd make a brilliant agony uncle. Never before has a telly detective wanged on about the fourth dimension and managed to be so cool at the same time. He's the man who can suss out weakness and wither it with one southern snarl, monologue his way through a police interrogation while sinking a four-pack of beer, and reel off metaphysical maxims with the ease of someone tying their shoelaces. There's rarely a moment when his solemn detective work isn't served with a side of Nietzsche-rivalling nihilism, making him (played by Matthew McConaughey) the tortured yin to the regular-guy yang of his partner Martin Hart ( Woody Harrelson). We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling programmed with total assurance that we are each a somebody, when in fact, everybody’s a nobody.” Easy to see why he can’t keep a normal friendship going very long.If you've seen even just half an hour of HBO's most talked-about show, True Detective (coming to a close on Sky Atlantic this weekend) TV's most meaningful cop, the furrow-faced anti-hero Rust Cohle, will have made an impression. His idea of small talk is, “We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. He comes back to Louisiana to finish the investigation, but he does so as a very different man. He ends up in Alaska for eight years, living in solitude, but he just can’t shut off the detective part of his brain. He can’t sleep, and reads book after book about sex crimes. He sees visions of flocks of birds making strange shapes in the sky. And more importantly, doing it without losing his mind. tracking down the serial killer wreaking havoc in Louisiana. He shows up to dinner at their house drunk and proceeds to tell the horrifying story of his young daughter’s death from years ago.Ĭhallenge. He’s got a weird way of showing it, though. single, but he might have a thing for Marty’s wife, Maggie. When Rust takes on a case, he lives that case, even when it ruins what few elements of a social life he has in his typically solitary existence. He throws himself into his job to an extent that’s flat-out unhealthy. Interests… work, the strange ways of the universe, and finding inner peace. He works with his partner Marty to tackle a series of murders, but it ends up setting them on a journey that they might not be able to escape from. He wants justice for victims and he has a big hole in his soul that he can only fill with his all-consuming work. But it’s more than just a profession for Rust it’s everything to him. He fills the room with enough smoke from enough cigarettes that you wouldn’t be able to see pictures on the wall, anyway. He doesn’t need to hang anything up – his job is his life. in Lousiana, alone, in a tiny apartment with no decorations.
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