Volume CXLIX - "No Country for Old Men: The Architecture of Fate"
Key Themes:
- Learned helplessness disguised as sophisticated worldview
- How good people choose powerlessness through abdication
- Chigurh as committed individual, not supernatural force
Main Arguments:
- The film programs the belief that chaos always wins and resistance is futile
- Every character chooses powerlessness before powerlessness chooses them
- Systems are built through individual choices—corruption spreads through individual compromise
Takeaway: Chaos fills the vacuum when good people stop participating. Make evil play by your rules instead of accepting its coin flip.