Post by erwyn on Mar 15, 2013 13:02:20 GMT -6
Considering one interpretation of Lovecrafts' stories/revelations as being reflections of a Xenophobic Puritan on his day an age, one could recognize that the degeneration of the world is one that we might label a kind of progress. Consider the following passage
The only words in there people in the modern western world might collectively frown upon are killing (for killing denies freedom) and holocaust (because it becomes immediately associated with the 2nd world war, even though that may be a euro-centric idea)
But being able to ascend beyond good and evil, to be able to withhold moral judgments, living to enjoy yourself in freedom!
That is the golden promise (-minus job opportunity and tax benefit) of every (populist) politician.
Add to this that we can reinterpret a holocaust as a sacrifice consumed by fire (which is the literal meaning), which is what we continue to do on a daily basis. Burning stuff, to provide electricity and power our industry from which we generate profit with which we enable ourselves to enjoy our lives in whatever way we like (freedom).
Even considering that our modern view may extend the idea of killing in enjoyment to the past time of (pleasure) hunting, we can even re-interpret that notion as something that could be positive under certain circumstances.
To me the emerald apocalypse seems to have occurred and now we are living in a postapocalyptic world. It entailed that we are evolving to a higher level. Not necessarily in a physical sense but in a cultural and spiritual (moral) sense. And even though Lovecraft may not have liked the direction in which these developments were going, he sure recognized that they occurred.
We are living in a post apocalyptic world.
Ia Ia Cthulhu Fhtagn
"The Old Ones are free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside an killing and reveling in joy." Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways and shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
The only words in there people in the modern western world might collectively frown upon are killing (for killing denies freedom) and holocaust (because it becomes immediately associated with the 2nd world war, even though that may be a euro-centric idea)
But being able to ascend beyond good and evil, to be able to withhold moral judgments, living to enjoy yourself in freedom!
That is the golden promise (-minus job opportunity and tax benefit) of every (populist) politician.
Add to this that we can reinterpret a holocaust as a sacrifice consumed by fire (which is the literal meaning), which is what we continue to do on a daily basis. Burning stuff, to provide electricity and power our industry from which we generate profit with which we enable ourselves to enjoy our lives in whatever way we like (freedom).
Even considering that our modern view may extend the idea of killing in enjoyment to the past time of (pleasure) hunting, we can even re-interpret that notion as something that could be positive under certain circumstances.
To me the emerald apocalypse seems to have occurred and now we are living in a postapocalyptic world. It entailed that we are evolving to a higher level. Not necessarily in a physical sense but in a cultural and spiritual (moral) sense. And even though Lovecraft may not have liked the direction in which these developments were going, he sure recognized that they occurred.
We are living in a post apocalyptic world.
Ia Ia Cthulhu Fhtagn