Why yes, there is a vast world devouring monster with its tendrils encircling all of us, and it's plainly visible once you notice it, and it's everywhere. But you come off as insane when you try to tell other people about it.

Is SCP-3125 an allegory for capitalism? Shit.

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[–] bort_simp_son@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Lovecraft was basically translating his alienation with capitalism into short stories. Unfortunately, being a reactionary for most his life, he punched down instead of up, and his fears were pointed at minorities and women and air conditioners instead of the pervasive system itself.

[–] DerEwigeAtheist@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Hasn't anyone written modern leftist horror in his style?

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Depending on your views of NK Jemisin, The City We Became is arguably an example of this.

[–] DerEwigeAtheist@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Thanks, I can just imagine the stuff lovecraft wrote but leftist, it really isn't that impossible. I kinda feel like Rats in the Wall is about aristocracy and old money, though it also has the cat.

I also found a reading of the book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd0nQm1tzZY

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Lmao nice to see Cold Air get a reference instead of his usual stuff people talk about

[–] DJMSilver@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Honestly that's what makes his stories good imo, shows that liberalism is ultimately the fear of the big Other that is represented by minorities and how its inherent.