"Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but now the Providence Atheneaum is considering taking down a bust of H.P. Lovecraft.
Here's the video, by Arkham Reporter, detailing the story...
As many of you know, Lovecraft is probably my #1 influence, creatively speaking. Primarily the Cthulhu Mythos, but I enjoy all his stories, as well as the majority of weird tales by his circle of friends and admirers.
Yeah, Lovecraft was racist in his younger days. Some of that might have been due to society in the early 20th century or ignorance or mental disorder... but HPL never killed anyone or threatened to kill anyone - which makes him a thousand times better than the antifa/BLM thugs and terrorists who've been destroying property and taking lives in our cities simply because they feel disenfranchised, when in reality they live in the most prosperous, safe, and free era in the entire world's history.
If this last bit seems unnecessarily harsh, well... I just learned about the white woman, Jessica Doty Whitaker, gunned down in Indianapolis for saying "All lives matter." Here's the article. I'm sickened. And the disgusting leftist media is complicit in this racial and political violence. They fan the flames of revolution, tearing America's systems down, their one-sided narrative practically begging for another civil war.
While I believe HPL was too quick to judge or prejudge those unlike himself, most likely out of fear than hatred, the madness and degradation and cruelty of today's "peaceful protesters" is so much worse. Before taking a statue of Lovecraft down, take a long hard look at yourself, your own shortcomings and failures to live up to this country's lofty ideals.
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p.s. If they do remove his statue, I'd be happy to give it a good home until this age of insanity is behind us.
I hold a strong hypothesis that there is some kind of cruel universal law that any great person - literature, arts, science, laws, war...has to have some kind of equally great horrible internal FLAW. Part of their internal pain is part of the complex bucket of factors that drives them to greatness. There are exceptions - save Mr Rogers I think I've found NONE but most are or will be guilty of some thought, action, deed that is "Not fashionably Radical" in their time or later. And if we tear down someone due to some flaw we will end up with NOTHING. Nothing worth any true memory, only bland, PC sludge...
ReplyDeleteMy idea on these -from around the time they removed the WFA (World Fantasy Award) of HP Lovecraft aka "The Howie" - is to bridge it to Wizard of Oz.
The reason we have 14 Oz novels instead of 3 is L. Frank Baum's call for Genocide. Specifically he wanted to wipe out all remaining Native Americans. He bankrupted himself self-publishing a frontier newspaper (heh, the original "Blog") and so picked up his pen and wrote more Oz to keep doing it. He constantly in print called for the "Final Solution" as we might call it today.
They say the Times at which HPL expressed his relatively mild racism were no excuse....
Part of this idea is to "Break their toys".
That is what "Social Justice Warriors" seem to be - or rather they were the child that ran over in Kindergarten and kicked down the other kid's block castles then ran over to Mommy Karen and had her shriek at the teacher to punish the kids that bullied them. Fair's Fair; Lots of SJWs love "The Wizard of Oz" because they think its a "Safe" fantasy adults can enjoy when it should be FIRST on their shitlist... Easy to google, this is NO secret - https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/10/27/130862391/l-frank-baum-advocated-extermination-of-native-americans
But also - there's powerful $ behind it.
When I was a little brat they were re-screening that movie in local theaters all over 50th, 60th whatever anniversary. But perfect to see in a legit theater even with today's tech - the movie literally was made for that experience in a way not so much these days. Due to him being almost as hated as Custer some Native American groups tried to protest. Instantly (due to MGM big $) denied any permits - ALSO the authorities with their lawyers present assured that they'd have the National Guard at any protest to immediately arrest and charge any protesters with full felonies. On top of that they assured any resistance, or if some 'anarchist' threw a rock they'd turn full automatic gunfire on the protesters. My town there was ONE protester, an old Indian man who peacefully went with the officers who arrested him ~5 minutes into it - and it was still reported he 'accidentally' had severe head injuries later. That's what big Hollow-Wood $ does when in the way.
So - the idea is (trying to be constructive, forgive the long post) is point out the Baum connection to these SJWs and dare them (without mentioning this) to "cancel" that property... These days it'd get the media orders to portray them as the Nucking Futz CryBullies they are when that property is threatened...
Tearing down history allows you to forget it, and history, especially bad history, has a habit of repeating itself if you’re not looking.
ReplyDeleteThe Whitaker story strikes me as suspicious. I'm not saying it didn't happen, but who goes walking by a canal at 3 AM on a Sunday night and decides to get in a racial arguement with a bunch of strangers? It could be that she and Ramirez got in an arguement, in a fit of passion Ramirez shoots her and then quickly concocts a story to cover himself with. Of course, forensics should be able to figure this out by analyzing the gun shots.
ReplyDeleteThe Lovecraft Bust? Yeah they probably would destroy it if they could, but it's not really a statue. They could just put it in a closet until the latest wave of hate blows over.
The 3am walk with fiance and child does seem strange, but I've personally been accosted by street people who've said provocative things to cause an argument or fight.
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