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in my opinion, the default winter season narrative of our culture -- Christmas -- is kind of a difficult one for large swaths of American culture to find broader meaning in.

As a secularized society, now there's not really anything there in terms of spiritual significance. There sure is a lot of stuff about consumption of goods though. Some people might feel connected to particular family traditions, which is great. But it lacks broader cultural meaning in terms of connection with the land, with our human experiences as a whole, and especially to any experiences of the sacred.

And, I think, folks know it.

what's weird about the cthulhu mythos is that the concept of an utterly alien entity or horror we are fundamentally incapable of understanding -- it may be an intelligent agent, even an intelligent moral agent, but without "intelligence", "morality", or "agency" as we know them -- is a really interesting idea that's relevant to a lot of domains, particularly when trying to think outside The Box in a strong sense.

but the actual unknowably alien entity and horror lovecraft was writing about was "people who aren't white", "white people who don't think it's important to be racist", and "biracial marriage". like, to lovecraft, white people voting for obama would have been exactly humans worshipping cthulhu.