Deadwood--What we were to be and what we actually are...

Watching Deadwood. Season 2. Episode 4. EB Farnum is frustrated… humiliated… And he says to Richardson, his chef, who is simpleminded… (roughly—a paraphrase) “You don’t know yourself.” And I can't shake the impression that this is true about all of us—we are all as wretched as Richardson. Made for glorious lives—a glorious creation filled with God’s glory… And yet we end up fallen, broken… I am struck by the discrepancy of what we were to be and what we actually are. Hightened, I guess, by the show’s depiction of such a grim, dirty, stinking camp and the beauty of gold sufacing here and there only to be lost again... squandered...