One thing: People who rant conspiratorially about "PC Police" and "social justice warriors" aren't exactly socially liberal. In fact, they're closer to someone like Limbaugh than they care to admit, because guess who HE rants conspiratorially about? Those people are fake, prevaricating Colbert Liberals— ponficating…

Lovecraft culled from Chambers openly and often, so there's that. There'd be no Lovecraft (as we know his work) without The King in Yellow.

Yeah, there's a definite 'seduction' element to the confessions. Very much akin to real life with our normatively douchebaggy sexual culture. With Cohle, it's interesting (and unique) to see that kind of PUA-like manipulation used for good instead of evil. The fact that Cohle never uses that ability for actual sexual…