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Tuesday, 12:49 pm in Misc

Funniest.  Thing.  Ever on Wikipedia.  It was while I was looking up H.P. Lovecraft, early 20th century hack writer most often known for his terrible purple writing and his creation of ‘mythos’; Cthulhu and the Necronomicon and all that.

Simply put, this article represents the trivial-mindedness of an abstract academicist and literalist with no psychological understanding. This article reeks of self-righteous pale academic conformism. Lovecraft was simply not an atheist or materialist as modern people understand these terms. Lovecraft’s psychological and ethical level was so high 99% of the species cannot follow him into the visionary profundity and detachment from base humanity he achieved. This article commits the fundamental stupidity of ignoring the traditional religious teaching of the exoteric and esoteric realms. […] Most of Lovecraft’s stories revolve about the search for Truth at different levels and the various all-too-human responses to Truth’s revelations; his tales are mystical journeys in code (‘madness’ here is part of the process of outgrowing one’s mind beyond the apeish loutish commonality) and constitute illuminations into his unique spiritual progress, a progress modern people cannot dare to match in their intoxications with fleshly illusions. Complete disillusionment past democratized pseudo-religion corresponds to the attainment of higher metaphysical consciousness. Lovecraft’s genius allowed him to cross over to a higher “esoteric Olympian nihilism”, to spheres above the wasteland of materialistic, anthropocentric modernity. Lovecraft was a genuine gnostic seeker of the Grail, a secret Grail-Knight, whose keen nostalgia for the Absolute and wanderlust to explore and conquer extra-mundane, supra-human realities impelled his output. Exoteric-minded, insensitive plebeians have no right to interpret Lovecraft’s sublime soul-dramas.

Quoted From: Talk:Cosmicism (emphasis mine)

I’m trying to think of something to say here about how people who try and convince others they see some kind of universal truth in pop-culture seem to constantly feel the need to (often incorrectly) use big words.  Like, stop over compensating, mate.  Lovecraft was a hack.  He wrote some good stories (and some other pretty mediocre ones), and started a phenomenon but he’s not some kind of modern day nihilistic Messiah.  If you personally see some kind of profundity in his writing then good for you, but that’s no reason to include it in an encyclopaedia.  Not to mention over-insistence on other people being part of the “apeish loutish commonality [sic]” only servers to make yourself look, well, foolish.

• Tags » deh lulz, h.p. lovecraft, wikipedia
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