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>>2119707

Imagine an entire nation comprised of these refined and suave fellows. I wonder what Britain was like when anglos still lived there and it wasn't overrun by subhumans. Was this what Lovecraft saw during his lifetime? His glorious America being subjected to hordes of chimplike men and other filth. Cities no longer being these homogeneous and friendly places where one would meet their dapper kinsmen, but hostile imported horrors and knuckledraggers. It's like seeing your favorite gym go from being inhabited by friendly and aesthetic lifters eager to help you out to fat retards that constantly break the equipment and stain the weights with cheeto dust.

Is it any wonder that this race now drinks themselves to death and try to engineer their own extinction considering the state they are currently in?

>>2119716

Lovecrafted wanted to go back to the late 1700s.

<…for all my life I have felt as if I might wake up out of this dream of an idiotic Victorian & an insane Jazze age into the sane reality of 1760 or 1770 or 1780… the age of white steeples & fanlighted doorways of the ancient hill, & of the long-s’d books of the old dark attic trunk-room at 454 Angell St. God Save the King!

— SL IV.364, quoted in Lovecraft Studies #19 20: https://archive.org/details/Lovecraft_Studies_19-20_1989-Fall_CosmicJukebox/page/n23

And Poe was similarly fed up with the Victorian Era, as evident in his satirical short-story Some Words with a Mummy from 1845:

<The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life and of the nineteenth century in general. I am convinced that everything is going wrong. Besides, I am anxious to know who will be President in 2045. As soon, therefore, as I shave and swallow a cup of coffee, I shall just step over to Ponnonner’s and get embalmed for a couple of hundred years.

— Some Words with a Mummy: https://archive.org/details/worksofedgaralla04poeeuoft/page/440/mode/2up

>>2119772

It is eerie how much one can relate, and truly terrifying to know how much worse it has gotten since those days. I have read some of the correspondence between Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard and their letters are akin to more sophisticated posts you'd find on a board here, speaking candidly about the absolute state of things. It would be funny if not so tragic.

Recently I've read the short essay, The Hyborian Age, by Howard and what strikes me is how contrary his vision runs from progressivism. People fall into barbaric states and degenerate, rise only to decline yet again, descending into an apelike existence. All while considering the not just pre-industrial state but nomadic and pre-agrarian to endow the people with more vitality. Showing some disdain towards oversocialised urban centres, but also the base savage incapable of building anything. Having some pastoral ideal in mind surely, one that seems almost universal to the European soul, as if some genetic distant memory.

To return to the video posted I wish to make another point, that not only do we live in cheap industrially produced boxes lacking any craftsmanship nor expressions of culture, gobble down disgusting processed food between slaving away at work shifts that never grew any shorter after industrial society emerged or even automation, but we no longer have the dignity that the old attire brought. We wear rags produced in the sweatshops of the Orient or the universally designated uniform of the corporate sector. You have the contrast made in the video between the old and the new, and you can see that it changes his entire demeanour, how he carries himself. It's something to ruminate on, what a difference it makes.

<He’s quite memorable. The 24-year-old artist, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, lives as though he’s in the Victorian era, from his 19th-century clothes to his refusal to watch TV.

<Michael met Charlotte Brindley, a 21-year-old aspiring actress, thanks to Instagram (no, that’s not very Victorian, but at least it wasn’t Tinder). He says he was inundated with offers from potential partners, but Charlotte’s commitment to Victorian values drew his attention.

Man who lives as a Victorian meets woman of his dreams | Metro News: http://archive.vn/EWjFL / http://web.archive.org/web/20200130061835/https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/29/man-lives-victorian-gentleman-meets-woman-dreams-12144415/

Best of luck to them.

As OP mentioned, the only way to live like this in the current year would be in the country side in England in order to avoid the immersion-breaking multicultural hell-hole of the modern world – I’d love to live as a member of the landed gentry in a nice country house à la Dalemain House in Cumbria and not have to deal with the outside world. Just painting, gardening, fishing, writing, genealogical studies, studying local history, collecting books and antiques, maybe throw a small garden party every once in a while?

>>2119774

A kindred spirit! I sympathise and share that view, like Lovecraft “I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century”. There is hardly anything made these days worth watching, reading or listening to. It is like we are in the most creatively bankrupt decade of human history, and at the same time we are subject to modern technology allowing governments to spy on us, allows foreigners to travel across borders, and our leaders are too cowardly to do anything about it.

Someone posted a Mega upload of Lovecraft materials over at /x/ a while back; a lot of short films, but it also includes Selected Letters. I heard one anon claim that S. T. Joshi had either tampered with some of the text, or at least left something out of the published letters; perhaps an attempt to cover up Lovecraft’s view on race?

“I confess it. I do not like modern furniture or much of modern architecture, less or none of modern art and little of modern literature. I am, of course, an antediluvian, a reactionary, an out-of-date or, as I prefer it, a rural romanticist.”

— James Wentworth Day, “Wild Wings and Some Footsteps”, 1948