Cormac McCarthy

This article is about GritCult's view of Cormac McCarthy. For a general overview, see Cormac McCarthy on Wikipedia.

Cormac McCarthy
“"There is no later." - Cormac McCarthy” (26 August 2025)
In the archive
Portal	The Philosophers
Posts	8
Retweets	50
Likes	491
First post	30 January 2021
Latest post	14 February 2026
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Cormac McCarthy appears in only 8 posts. GritCult's interest centres on Blood Meridian, which he offers as a stock recommendation and mines for Judge Holden's philosophy of power, and on a single 2025 quotation about urgency that drew most of the engagement.

Views

Blood Meridian does most of the work. In January 2021 he quoted Judge Holden's claim that 'Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent', noting the scene in which the judge, 'a man of science', catalogues birds and puts them in cages ^[1]. The same day he set the judge beside Foucault in a post on naming as power, ending: 'if you are unable to name yourself, you are a slave' ^[2]. He approves of the posture as much as he analyses it, calling one reply 'Very based and blood meridian pilled' and glossing it as 'All that exists; exists to serve me.' ^[3]. Elsewhere the title alone is his answer in replies, from 2021 to 2026.

The other McCarthy is a writer of urgency. His most-shared McCarthy post, from 2025, is simply 'There is no later.' ^[4], with an image of the longer passage in which the day has no list of things to be done and later is now. It sits naturally beside the Seneca posts on wasted time and the account's impatience with postponement. Beyond that, a 2021 reply listing westerns includes the film of No Country for Old Men ^[5].

Recurring themes

• Judge Holden as a philosophy of power
• naming as mastery
• Blood Meridian as a stock recommendation
• no later, only now

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 44 retweets:

Selected posts

All 8 posts in the archive about Cormac McCarthy, ranked by retweets. Select a column heading to sort.

Date	Retweets	Likes	Post	Media	Source
26 August 2025	44	423	"There is no later." - Cormac McCarthy		View
13 June 2023	3	31	Ted k. Berlusconi. Cormac McCarthy. Wtf is going on ?!?		View
30 January 2021	1	10	judge holden in the cormac mcarthy once says in the book blood meridian that “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.” in another scene the judge is seen as a man of science categorising birds, putting them in cages		View
16 September 2022	1	10	Blood Meridian		View
14 February 2026	1	8	@Lovandfear blood meridian		View
12 February 2021	0	5	@robertgriker Blood meridian		View
22 August 2021	0	4	@Tirobello 3.10 to Yuma. Remake Bone tomahawk. No country for old men. Assassination of Jesse James Outlaw Josef wales Unforgiving Most Sergio leone films with Eastwood		View
26 March 2021	0	0	@BEEFWHISTLE420 Very based and blood meridian pilled. All that exists; exists to serve me.		View

History

GritCult first posted about Cormac McCarthy on 30 January 2021, and most recently on 14 February 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 8 times, most often in 2021 (4 posts).

See also

The Philosophers portal

References

1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (30 January 2021). Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. ... the judge is seen as a man of science categorising birds, putting them in cages. X.
2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (30 January 2021). this could be seen as the philosophical interaction of judge holden and foucault. ... if you are unable to name yourself, you are a slave. X.
3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (26 March 2021). Very based and blood meridian pilled. ... All that exists; exists to serve me. X.
4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (26 August 2025). There is no later. X.
5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (22 August 2021). No country for old men. X.

External links

• Posts about Cormac McCarthy by GRITCULT on X
• Cormac McCarthy on Wikipedia