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The mere sight of Cthulhu doesn't drive you insane. 

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One of the most prominent misconceptions about Lovecraftian horror 

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is that Lovecraft wrote about creatures so horrifying that they drove you mad. 

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This is an oversimplification, mostly due to the call of Cthulhu RPG. 

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Despite his rampant racism and many intellectual shortcomings, 

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H.P. Lovecraft had a very interesting and carefully crafted atheistic worldview, 

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which he dubbed Mechanistic Materialism. 

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This fueled his later stories, from around 1926 and on, 

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and is a source of existential dread both in his stories and in his life. 

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In a completely materialistic universe, human actions have no significance, 

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and that's a dreadful thing to come to terms with. 

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Because after realizing it, you have to come back to a society 

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which pretends everything we do has the greatest importance. 

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And sometimes, that may make you think you're going mad. 

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A recent example may be the COVID pandemic. 

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During the COVID pandemic, 

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millions of kids who had been told they had to go to school every day 

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suddenly realized that wasn't the case. 

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Some may have suffered during the lockdowns, 

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and some did a little of both. 

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But then the schools open up again, 

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and everybody pretends that everything is normal again. 

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The kids, however, know this isn't true, 

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and there's a fundamental mismatch between how we pretend the system works 

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and how they know they don't. 

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The results are, predictably, an increase in mental health issues, 

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and involuntary school absence all over the world. 

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Now, let's take that back to Cthulhu. 

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The sight of Cthulhu doesn't merely reveal that our systems or our self-worth 

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is different from what we thought. 

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It reveals that the cosmos, physics, space-time, 

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and even reality itself is not merely fundamentally indifferent to us, 

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but malignant. 

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Everything you see after seeing Cthulhu is forever changed. 

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And in Lovecraft's prejudicial views, 

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that would not necessarily be the case. 

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It would not necessarily drive a primitive religious man insane, 

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but it would drive an enlightened, rational gentleman like himself to madness. 

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And perhaps it is this existential insanity, 

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more relevant than ever as the systems around us fail, 

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that makes his work appeal to us still. 

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, 

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is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. 

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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of 

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black seas of infinity, 

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and it was not meant that we should voyage far. 

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The sciences, each straining in its own direction, 

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have hitherto harmed us little. 

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But someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge 

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will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, 

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and of our frightful position therein, 

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that we shall either go mad from their revelation, 

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or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark.