The likely source of the dark philosophy of True Detective, Season One, has been identified as The Conspiracy Against the Human Race.
I recently watched True Detectives (season 1) and really liked the dark, brooding and pessimistic philosophy of the character Rustin “Rust” Cohle, a detective played by Mathew McConaughey. If you haven’t seen the series, it is well worth it to watch the first season. If you have already seen it but want to see the highlights of Rustin’s life philosophy, then check out the Youtube video of the best parts.
Most of us that have seen the series know what this is all about. And if you were interested in the book that must have given inspiration to the writers of the script, I’m pretty sure it can be found in The Consipracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti.
While not directly linked as the source of Rustin’s philosophy, after reading this book, it seems pretty clear that the screenwriters have definitely read the book and used many parts of it as the basis for the character’s outlook on life.
So for anyone that knows what I am talking about here, definitely check it out.
This is what the book is about:
In Thomas Ligotti's first true to life trip, an examination of the significance (or triviality) of life through an astute, unsparing contention that demonstrates the best repulsions are not the results of our creative energy but rather are found as a general rule.
"There is a mark theme perceivable in the two works of philosophical negativity and powerful repulsiveness. It might be expressed hence: Behind the scenes of life prowls something poisonous that makes a bad dream of our reality."
His fiction is known to be probably the most startling in the class of powerful awfulness, yet Thomas Ligotti's first true to life book might be much scarier. Drawing on rationality, writing, neuroscience, and different fields of study, Ligotti takes the infiltrating focal point of his creative energy and turns it on his group of onlookers, making them think about the merciless reality that they are carrying on a negligible bad dream, and any individual who feels generally is just showcasing a hopeful paradox. On the double a manual to critical idea and a persevering evaluate of mankind's work of self-misdirection to adapt to the unavoidable enduring of their reality, The Conspiracy against the Human Race may simply persuade perusers that there is in excess of a proportion of truth in the hopeless yet out of the blue freeing antagonism that is generally viewed as a sign of Ligotti's work.
The Book this clip was likely based on:
Top Reader Reviews:
“Definitely a banned book feel from reading this.”
I have dove my hands down into the refuse at the extremely base of the human mind; I've done this fair to recognize what's down there—for my very own composition. Awfulness for the good of horror, truly.
I don't prescribe you consistently perusing this book except if you genuinely need to touch the most superficial layer of what really makes Cosmic Horror so frightening—and why this audit is as dark and is substantial as it may be.
All joking aside, this book has given me, as a Christian, a one of a kind point of view intentionally other than my own. The takeaway, I accept (and me being cynical as I am, yet not skeptical in general), is to know about yourself and the powers around you that are shaping you. You are a manikin. In any event, recognize it.
Be that as it may, significantly more truly, don't peruse this book on the off chance that you are self-destructive. It's past alarming in an existential sense.
In any case, to end things in an elevating note: I took in a great deal about Lovecraft; a ton about loathsomeness; and fortified my own confidence which contrasts from Ligotti's.
“Thomas Ligotti's "The Conspiracy Against The Human Race" persuasively and wonderfully portrays the inclination effectively well-known to each pariah of life, to each worry wart, to the individuals who know and have felt where it counts that life is as Ligotti depicts "threateningly futile." The main 'Intrigue' alludes less to a plot of people and here to the need of cognizant creatures to create techniques for restricting the degree of their own mindfulness, of smothering awareness by mooring themselves to builds of request and diverting themselves from the inborn uselessness of human presence in the thresher of life. Relating the limitless void to primordial dread, and existential fear to loathsomeness fiction, Ligotti utilizes this 'invention of ghastliness' to clarify thoughts present underway of writers, for example, Peter Zappfe, Thomas Metzinger, Emil Cioran, Algernon Blackwood, HP Lovecraft, and Ligotti's very own works. Ligotti lights up the main thrusts of inestimable and existential repulsiveness and makes a sound and charming safeguard for cynicism. Really an absolute necessity read for any fanatic of grandiose ghastliness or existential theory.”