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H.P. Lovecraft was a weird guy and also a racist, who knew????

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H.P. Lovecraft and the Reactionary Mind | Chill Goblin HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!

This video as well as my ability to feed myself was made possible by my generous Patreons. Patreon: http://patreon.com/chillgoblin Twitter: @chill_goblin Twitch: twitch.tv/thegoatandthegoblin Discord: https://discord.gg/2YcBgDdwnJ Was H.P. Lovecraft a product of his time? Can you separate the art from the artist? Will Chill Goblin be able to get his Halloween SPECIAL video uploaded before November? This horror video essay should definitively answer at least one of these questions. Through H.P. Lovecraft’s stories and letters, I explore the haunted house that is the reactionary mind… where I’ve been dared by the cool kids at school to stay overnight to prove we’re brave enough to join their club. Voices: Little Hoot as THE REACRONOMICON: https://www.youtube.com/c/littlehoot Thunderpants as H.P. LOVECRAFT: https://www.twitch.tv/thunderpantsacademy Ashley as SONIA GREENE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClAvPT2QomU5PHdL9LljTxQ Tirrrb as GUY WHO GOES TO INNSMOUTH AND LET’S JUST SAY HE BITES OFF A LITTLE MORE THAN HE CAN CHEW: https://www.youtube.com/c/Tirrrb What even is Hierarchy? By AnRel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yANLp_dw1wI&ab_channel=AnRel Writing by Chill Goblin & We’re in Hell Sources: Books: The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft, edited by Leslie S Klinger: Simply the best way to read Lovecraft’s stories, highly recommend this one and “Beyond Arkham” to get the most out of it. Forward by Alan Moore! Didn’t show it onscreen because it doesn’t look as cool as my other copy Selected Letters Vol. 1-5 by H.P. Lovecraft- A looooot of racism and racial slurs in these in between the delightful “Theobaldus” stuff I Am Providence by S. T. Joshi: Pretty good, Joshi knows more about Lovecraft than anyone on earth, so I feel a bit bad disagreeing with him on a bunch of Lovecraft stuff haha The Reactionary Mind by Corey Robin: Will change the way you think about both conservatives and how “Robin” can be pronounced Papers/ Essays: “Shadows over Lovecraft: Reactionary Fantasy and Immigrant Eugenics” by Bennett Graff “No laws for the lions and many laws for the oxen is liberty” from Neoreaction: a Basilisk by Elizabeth Sandifer. This book ROCKS! I never read it before. So smart and funny. Didn’t quote from it in this but it was in my head while writing. This essay in particular is such a vicious/ effective attack on ancaps 00:00 - "The Leviathan" (Intro cartoon) 01:55- Was Lovecraft a racist? Very much yes 15:42- What was Lovecraft afraid of? 19:40 - The Cult of Cthonservatism 24:22- Brown Jenking 26:33 - Doorstepping 28:22 - The Azathoth Instinct 30:37 - Lovecraft: A Lifecraft 57:16 - Shadow Over Innsmouth 1:11:54 - The Horror of the Hierarchy

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Willow Davison

When I was a conservative Christian, I really struggled with the moral implications of my faith and I couldn't see how unconditional devotion to Yeshua could leave room for a comfortable, middle class lifestyle. No one ever explained to me that we were poor, and the only reason I thought I was middle class was because my mom was good at managing money and was too proud to apply for food stamps. Anyway, I once asked another Christian how he could justify not living like a Franciscan monk, and he genuinely didn't understand the questions. It's only now that I understand the conservative mindset better that I suspect we never actually had the same faith, and that I never understood the other people at my church as well as I thought I did.

Willow Davison

Also, a few years after I got out of high school I saw someone I knew post "A lion does not concern itself with the opinion of sheep" on social media, and when I pointed out that was an extremely un-Biblical sentiment they said it wasn't a biblical context. Which was another moment of confusion for me, because I didn't see how someone could believe the Bible is the inspired word of God and not see literally everything as residing in a Biblical context.

Willow Davison

I just finished, and this rocks, but it's also weird to realize how off I was when I first approached Lovecraft. I always thought the horror was that all human endeavors are doomed to destruction and all the hopes and dreams of everyone on Earth are damned to be trampled underfoot by callous monsters without empathy. But the trampling isn't really a bad thing in Lovecraft's understanding. He wants a world in which all that is being done. What scares him is just that someone higher up than him might be doing the trampling.

ChillGoblin

"Who is doing the trampling" That's a reeeeally good way to put it! Lovecraft: Imagine if there were systemic forces outside of your control, lurking around every corner, endangering your life, cutting you off from power! Marginalized people: Yeah, imagine