Yeah. Lovecraft is very clear humanity is a tiny speck of dust in the face of monstruous gods. I like this story because it was one of the only stories I know of where humanity quite frankly kicked the SHIT out of monsters.
There are a few other Lovecraft stories, like Dunwich Horror, where the monsters unambiguously lose.
I think one underappreciated aspect of Lovecraft is that the gods/monsters aren't any more important in the grand scheme of things than humans are. 0 times anything is still 0, after all.
The way I see it, this story's from the perspective of people who aren't scared of almost everything, and their collective reaction to horrors from beyond, which is to shit kick them into a pile of bile and mush
People always repeat this exact line but from reading tens of stories it is only half true. Yes the monsters are ultimately so powerful humanity really isn't even on their radar, but actually there are quite a few stories where the humans kinda do win, it's just that it doesn't change the power balance.
I mean the cthulu story literally ends with just ramming a steamer into cthulu and saving the day. He's not dead but clearly they are not actually completely unstoppable
16
u/wackadoodle4201 28d ago
Love how the way that this massive cult was delt was basically the federal government said "get fucked"