Problematizing Post-The Road

I think it was so interesting how the boy kept asking his father if they were the good guys. "'Are we still the good guys' he said. 'Yes. We're still the good guys'"(McCarthy 77). If the son was so young that he cannot remember the old way of living, then how would he know right from wrong? What's the guiding moral compass? What is the ultimate good that the boy is deriving morals from? This seems to be the direction of the culture we live in. We want people to have morals but we're not willing to admit that there has to be an ultimate from which morals derive. This is what's causing all the sticky, opaque situations that our nation and people are getting lost in. No one is able to stay within the moral compass because we choose to believe there isn't one. It's quite ironic how our culture thinks. This reminds me of the bumper stickers that say, "Tolerance" and "Coexist" and each letter has a symbol of a different religion, including Christianity. Yet, the irony is that the one religion people won't tolerate is Christianity.

Our culture needs to understand that they cannot have morals without having something that defines and creates those morals. Saying that they come of ourselves means that we are gods. And if we are gods, why is their death and reproduction? This whole thought process opens up Pandora's box and if one is not careful their whole world is going to be turned upside down. Jesus is going to make sure they know who He is and how serious He is about their lives. It's funny that Cormac McCarthy mentions God and has his characters question if there is a God and yet he is not a believer himself. "You mean like the good guys? Yes. Or anybody that you wanted them to know where you were. Like who? I don't know. Like God? Yeah. Maybe somebody like that" (McCarthy 246). He just reflects our culture and the journey they are on; finding meaning and purpose without being held responsible for their actions