title: Creeds, Codes and Cowboy Commandments: TV's B-Western Heroes Rules To Live By
author: Matthew McKenzie
description: Matthew McKenzie has spent his professional career working as an analyst in the insurance industry. He currently resides with his family in the Winston-Salem area of North Carolina.
zlib_text: Table of Contents
  Cover
  Title Page
  Contributors
  Acknowledgments
  Introduction
  Part I: “YOU SAID THIS PLACE WAS A GAME”
  1 On Playing Cowboys and Indians
  Pretending to Be a Cowboy
  Acting As If You are a Cowboy
  Not Actually Being a Cowboy
  Intending to Deceive about Being a Cowboy
  Believing that You are Not a Cowboy
  Intending to Deceive about Being Human
  The Ethics of Pretending to Be a Cowboy
  2 A Special Kind of Game
  Narrative and Personal Development
  Playing Cowboy
  Defining Character
  Educate and Entertain
  Allure of the West
  3 Humans and Hosts in Westworld
  “No matter how real this world seems, it’s still just a game”
  “How do you know? We feel the same”
  “There is no threshold…no inflection point, at which we
  become fully alive”
  “We create life itself”
  “Do you even know where you are?”
  
  Part II: “YOU'RE ONLY HUMAN, AFTER ALL”
  4 Crossing the Uncanny Valley
  Uncanny…
  (Non)human Excellence
  Suffer Little Robots
  Buddha ex Machina
  5 Revealing Your Deepest Self
  “Now That’s a Fuckin’ Vacation!”
  “Can 