Re: H.P.L, CAS and 2012
Posted by:
NightHalo (IP Logged)
Date: 30 September, 2009 09:40PM
The belief in an end of days has been around for a very long time. At the turn of year 1000 C.E., there was a serious belief that the Messiah was about to show himself and bring about the Apocalypse just as the doomsayers predicted with the turn of 2000. It seems to me, this belief is part of humanity's imagination and the nightmare of a particular line of existential musing. Each generation thinks his is that of iron and perhaps rightly so. Dissatisfaction may very well be a catalyst for change.
However, I do not think that Lovecraft or CAS are unique prophets in this area. Henry Miller, Adolus Huxley, and the ancient Norse with Ragnarok for that matter, all made stories on the subject and each may very well have seen it coming. In my experience, apocalyptic literature acts as a temperature gague for the society. In all the damnations and reasons given for why humanity must die, one finds what the author fears is being lost and what new attitudes seem threatening. In this sense, maybe the writers are seeing an apocalpyse, but only in its original Greek meaning, a "revelation" or "lifting of the veil" of things to come.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 30 Sep 09 | 09:41PM by NightHalo.