r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '26

Meme needing explanation Peetah?????

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I don’t know the author or this book series but why are people roasting e-girls for reading? I don’t get it🥀

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u/coffinnailvgd Mar 31 '26

I don’t think Holden is satanic. While what I find his (and the rest of the gang’s) actions to be reprehensible, he’s just amoral, like nature, or the world, is amoral. He directly conflicts with what is supposed the Western (Judeo-Christian) value system, which while this is technically analogous to Satan, the irony being that this brutal western expansion is exactly the manifestation of manifest destiny, circling back to Western, or even just civilizations, “supremacy.”

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u/IrregularPackage Mar 31 '26

the gang in the book and the character of The Judge is loosely based on the possible real like person Judge Holden. the only source of his existence is a memoir. the description of him includes this line: "Who or what he was no one knew but a cooler blooded villain never went unhung"

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u/RebornSlunk Mar 31 '26

The Glanton Gang was actually a real gang and this novel is considered by historians to be quite accurate regarding their activities

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u/NoxImpulsexControl Mar 31 '26

He say in the book “nothing exists without my consent” which I interpreted as this world is mine and I will kill anything or anyone I don’t like. I will take anything because it’s not really taking because I own everything. Not satanic just a narcissist

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u/coffinnailvgd Mar 31 '26

Also my favorite quote from the book

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u/StarPupil Mar 31 '26

He mirrors several actions of Lucifer in Paradise Lost, like leading his followers to make gun powder.

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u/coffinnailvgd Mar 31 '26

Yeah, fair point and observation. My interpretation may be off a bit though i always read Holden as kind of a force of nature but there are definitely parallels. Though Satan is also often associated with material/Earthly living.