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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8312357" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Which is absolutely true! The advancement of society and technology, knowledge of the world around us and the universe we fit into, has pushed the Existential Dread largely to the side as a simple accepted fact of reality almost invariably learned, now, as children.Oh, we still tell them the same stories and share our religions and beliefs,&nbsp; but the ever-expanding scope of our knowledge just washes everything in the context of an immense uncaring universe. For Lovecraft Tentacles and oddly pulsing oozing monsters were the edge of madness 'cause the dude lived&nbsp; in New England and the Sea was the single most dangerous &quot;Monster&quot; in his day to day life, for all its beauty.Meanwhile nowadays tentacles are just a part of a cephalopod for most kids and pornographic for a lotta teens and adults!The great startling mysteries and horrors of Lovecraft's work have largely faded from the world. Instead we create new forms of Existentialism to terrify us. Things like the whole Black Mirror television series where technological advancement and its endless creative change become our new stand-in for Eldritch Monsters. Where our lives and ourselves can be replaced by computer programs, holograms, and robots. And where even &quot;Heaven&quot; as a concept can simply be a computer network that we upload our flickering brain-patterns into in those final brief moments before the Synaptic Tsunami sends us into the White Light with the continuing question from that point being whether that computer-self which&nbsp; holds all of our memories is the &quot;Real&quot; us, while our body has died and our soul, if any such thing should exist, has left.Just gotta repackage things&nbsp; based on the new situations we're in, is all!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8312357, member: 6796468"] Which is absolutely true! The advancement of society and technology, knowledge of the world around us and the universe we fit into, has pushed the Existential Dread largely to the side as a simple accepted fact of reality almost invariably learned, now, as children. Oh, we still tell them the same stories and share our religions and beliefs, but the ever-expanding scope of our knowledge just washes everything in the context of an immense uncaring universe. For Lovecraft Tentacles and oddly pulsing oozing monsters were the edge of madness 'cause the dude lived in New England and the Sea was the single most dangerous "Monster" in his day to day life, for all its beauty. Meanwhile nowadays tentacles are just a part of a cephalopod for most kids and pornographic for a lotta teens and adults! The great startling mysteries and horrors of Lovecraft's work have largely faded from the world. Instead we create new forms of Existentialism to terrify us. Things like the whole Black Mirror television series where technological advancement and its endless creative change become our new stand-in for Eldritch Monsters. Where our lives and ourselves can be replaced by computer programs, holograms, and robots. And where even "Heaven" as a concept can simply be a computer network that we upload our flickering brain-patterns into in those final brief moments before the Synaptic Tsunami sends us into the White Light with the continuing question from that point being whether that computer-self which holds all of our memories is the "Real" us, while our body has died and our soul, if any such thing should exist, has left. Just gotta repackage things based on the new situations we're in, is all! [/QUOTE]

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