At The Mountains of Madness

The importance of fictional worlds can't be overstated. I prefer fictional worlds because the actual reality of the world lays bare in front of me and after the discovery I keep doing the things that I used to do before getting enlightened about the political truth of the world, that is to immerse myself in fictional worlds created by people. Game of Thrones is an accurate description of the actual world, and I have never really liked that franchise though I definitely watched and enjoyed it as piece of entertainment. My kind of fictional worlds are Phantom operating in the jungles of Denkali, or Nagraj operating in Mahanagar. I like the kind of fiction where God is not corrupt, and goodness has a fair chance against evil and criminals which, as I have realised, is not the actual case. When the whole world was not mapped by satellites and Google Maps and Google Earth was absent people used to fill the knowledge gaps about other places, regions and cultures with their imagination and while some of it ended up being stereotypical, a lot of it was imaginative and beautiful. It was the awe of seeing another culture with an accepting heart and filling what one didn't understand, with warmth. The thing to notice here is that the white culture is globalised, they do not fear losing their culture while in India people are afraid of losing their culture, that's what colonisation does to people. The whites can make movies about mummies, african tribes and everything else without ever fearing cultural threats while in India actual cultures are getting extinct. I kind of understand when South Indians make hue and cry about Hindi imposition because it's an actual threat but what they don't know is their culture is actually systematically being destroyed and they are not aware of it and it's not even the whites doing it anymore. It's all Indians, of course the ones who have consolidated power, changing refined and layered cultural narratives into simple narratives of survival and vulgarity. When I was getting exposed to the level of control that is exercised on people I realised that the whole game is keeping people alive and yet deprived of basic human needs, turning them into beasts who do can't fulfill the hole in their hearts despite doing unspeakable things. Common people, now can't have layered narratives of existence like their grandparents had. It's stratification and fortification of stratas in which only those who are ready to betray their own people would climb up. When this is the reality, I would prefer to stay with Phantom and Nagraj or derive my pleasure from cosmic nihilism of Lovecraft. Be aware of the reality, but also find yourself worlds that you can escape into. Things, as they look, are going to get even worse.