Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Lovecraft \u0026 Howard - Pulp! Weird Tales - Extra Sci Fi" video.

  1. Lovecraft was a coward, plain and simple. We're talking about a man who's view of a beautiful night sky would be best summed up not as wonder or awe, but horror, and who looks at learning as something dangerous rather than empowering. This permeated every aspect of his live including fear of humans who are slightly different from him. For example, when racism against blacks appears in his work, it's less like "blacks are worthless" and more "blacks are big, strong, and dangerous compared to my frail Caucasian self". Hell, anything that was out of the norm for him was treated as a potential threat. Was he racist, absolutely and I totally understand all those who can't read his work because of it, but I find myself pitying him, as it's just another facit of what appears to have been some form of untreated anxiety disorder beyond his ability to cope which socially crippled him, dispite how channeling those terrors into his writing made for some classic horror.
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