Match The Monologue: Manson Or McConaughey
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The HBO series ‘True Detective’ has been the subject of critical acclaim since it’s premiere, specifically Matthew McConaughey and his role as the troubled Rust Cohle. The meaning of Cohle’s deep and insightful thoughts have been speculated upon by people all over the internet while some think it’s just nonsense. Can you spot the difference between Matthew McConaughey’s Detective Cohle and the king of crazy, Charles Manson?
1. Who said it? McConaughey or Manson?
“A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you.”
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2. Who said it? McConaughey or Manson?
“We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self. This accretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody when, in fact, everybody’s nobody.”
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3. Who said it? McConaughey or Manson?
“In eternity where there is no time, nothing can grow, nothing can become, nothing changes. So death created time to grow the things that it would kill. And you are reborn but into the same life that you’ve always been born into.”
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4. Who said it? McConaughey or Manson?
“A lot of you young people, even though you go through college, you still don’t understand that courtroom. That courtroom is the court of the kings and lords of the world. We as human beings can invoke the ground here called the United States of America. And the reason our system has perpetuated in such a way is because all the powers of Europe and England and monarchies and all those big people; we have come over here and started another world where each man in the United States has that power because he has that courtroom.”
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5. Who said it? McConaughey or Manson?
“They’re looking for something dirty in everything, and if you’re looking for something, you’ll find it. You have to put up some kind of face for them, and that’s the only face they understand.”
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6. Who said it? McConaughey or Manson?
“Transference of fear and self-loathing to an authoritarian vessel. It’s catharsis. He absorbs their dread with his narrative. Because of this, he’s effective at proportion to the amount of certainty he can project. Certain linguistic anthropologists think that religion is a language virus that rewrites pathways in the brain.”
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7. Who said it? McConaughey or Manson?
“I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the way I think you even if that’s only my own thinking and not you.”
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8. Who said it? McConaughey or Manson?
“If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward then, brother, that person is a piece of sh*t. And I’d like to get as many of them out in the open as possible. You gotta get together and tell yourself stories that violate every law of the universe just to get through the goddamn day? What’s that say about your reality?”
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9. Who said it? McConaughey or Manson?
“Human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody.”
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10. Who said it? McConaughey or Manson?
“There is no way that you can know the taste of water unless you drink it or unless it has rained on you or unless you jump in the river.”
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